Rome, Jan 27 (LaPresse) – ‘Eighty years ago the horror of the Shoah was shown to the world in all its terrifying force. On 27 January 1945, the gates of Auschwitz were torn down, and along with them the wall that prevented the abomination of the Nazi plan of persecution and extermination of the Jewish people from being clearly seen. Men, women, children and the elderly torn from their homes, forced to leave everything behind, taken to extermination camps and killed simply because they were of the Jewish religion. A plan whose premeditated ferocity makes the Shoah a tragedy unparalleled in history. A plan, the one conducted by Hitler's regime, which in Italy also found the complicity of the fascist regime, through the infamy of the racial laws and involvement in the round-ups and deportations'. Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. ‘An abyss countered by the courage of so many Righteous, who did not hesitate to disobey and risk their own lives to save that of thousands of innocent people,’ she added.
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