Senator for life Liliana Segre invites Chiara Ferragni to visit Platform 21 - the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan which recalls the point from which the wagons loaded with Jews headed for Auschwitz departed - in order to use the "power" of the 27-year-old influencer. millions of followers to encourage young people to do the same .
A bit like what happened at the Uffizi , where a few shots of the entrepreneur in front of the most famous works kept in the Florentine gallery were enough to record a 27% increase in younger visitors in a single weekend .
"I would very much like to meet Chiara Ferragni and invite her to visit the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan with me - said Senator Segre, during her last visit to Binario 21 -. I know her, I know she lives in Milan and I know what she does. I saw that she worked with her husband on various issues of social importance . It would be interesting to meet her and maybe come here together, in front of this big sign 'Indifference' that I wanted to be placed at the entrance to the Memorial precisely because this is the problem today. to solve".
"The fact that young people know little about this place and the stories that are kept there is my worry - continues the 91-year-old, who for decades has taken it upon herself to remember her experience as a deported -. This pains me, when it touches me. remember what I experienced and what millions of Jews lived, condemned for the sole guilt of being born. If young people do not arrive, was it all useless? If Chiara Ferragni came here with me, many teenagers would be interested in this topic and they would come here to see what happened to me and so many others, including the many who have never returned from the journey to horror. "
No response from Ferragni for the moment but the reply comes from her husband Fedez: " I would be happy to invite Senator Liliana Segre to our podcast Muschio Selvaggio , I hope she can accept our invitation", wrote the rapper, creator with his wife in the days of pandemic of a fundraiser to build an intensive care unit at San Raffale, inaugurated in record time. A commitment for which the two received the Ambrogino d'Oro, the highest honor in the Milanese city.
From 15 June, the Shoah Memorial and the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center (CDEC) inaugurate new spaces: over 750 square meters that include a library, a classroom and an agora , where Ferragnez and all Milanese.
(Unioneonline / D)
