«Almost 80 years later, it seems that history has taught us little. Wars, violence, discrimination are sadly current, as is anti-Semitism, a scourge that has always existed. And who knows how many centuries it will take for it to be eradicated. Maybe when people stop fighting each other. This is why it is important to remember. We still pay the consequences of that past. The past is a reference, the present the basis for the future, to live better and not repeat the same mistakes».

Piera Levi-Montalcini , granddaughter of the famous Rita, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1986, is ready to tell the horrors of the Holocaust in a six-stop tour of Sardinia on the occasion of Remembrance Day.

A " four days ", from 25 to 28 January, between Cagliari, Selargius, Sestu, Quartu, Donori, Elmas , to meet students and citizens at the invitation of Antonella Angioni, professor of Law and Economics, with the collaboration of Enzo Cugusi, of the Gramsci Sardinian Association of Turin.

Of a Jewish family, seventy-six years old, electronic engineer, president of the Levi-Montalcini association, Piera carries on the spiritual legacy of her aunt , expelled from the University of Turin following the racial laws. And it is his first visit to Sardinia . "Curiosity is great - he explains - I've always heard its beauties praised".

Then a thought for young people and the «loss of brains , about how many brilliant and cultured minds Italy has lost, forced to flee the country due to racial laws and persecutions. They could have contributed to its development but they never returned, also because racial hatred did not cease with the end of the conflict », she explains.

Despite being born in 1946, a year after the end of the war, Piera Levi-Montalcini explains that she " breathed the discriminatory atmosphere towards people of the Jewish religion . My father had to give up his professorship in Turin and my aunt, sensing that life would be difficult, decided to stay in the United States».

(Unioneonline/vl)

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