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| Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats | Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats |
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| An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in Italy has been assigned police guards for protection after receiving hundreds of threats on social media. | An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in Italy has been assigned police guards for protection after receiving hundreds of threats on social media. |
| Liliana Segre, who was sent to the notorious Auschwitz death camp at 13, has been subjected to a barrage of anti-Semitic messages in recent days. | Liliana Segre, who was sent to the notorious Auschwitz death camp at 13, has been subjected to a barrage of anti-Semitic messages in recent days. |
| It comes after Ms Segre, an Italian life senator, called for parliament to establish a committee to combat hate. | It comes after Ms Segre, an Italian life senator, called for parliament to establish a committee to combat hate. |
| The motion passed despite a lack of support by Italy's right-wing parties. | The motion passed despite a lack of support by Italy's right-wing parties. |
| Members of the nationalist League party, led by Matteo Salvini, the centre-right Forza Italia and the far-right Brothers of Italy all abstained from the vote in Milan last week. | Members of the nationalist League party, led by Matteo Salvini, the centre-right Forza Italia and the far-right Brothers of Italy all abstained from the vote in Milan last week. |
| The motion called for the establishment of an extraordinary commission in Italy to combat all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence on ethnic and religious grounds. | The motion called for the establishment of an extraordinary commission in Italy to combat all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence on ethnic and religious grounds. |
| Ms Segre said after the vote that the abstentions made her feel "like a Martian in the Senate". | Ms Segre said after the vote that the abstentions made her feel "like a Martian in the Senate". |
| "I appealed to the conscience of everyone and thought that a commission against hatred as a principle would be accepted by all," she said at the time, Italy's La Repubblica reported (in Italian). | "I appealed to the conscience of everyone and thought that a commission against hatred as a principle would be accepted by all," she said at the time, Italy's La Repubblica reported (in Italian). |
| Since then, she has reported receiving as many as 200 hate messages a day. | Since then, she has reported receiving as many as 200 hate messages a day. |
| Some of the threats have been so serious that the prefect of Milan, Renato Saccone, held at a meeting on Wednesday with the committee for security and public order, where it was agreed that Ms Segre needed police protection. | Some of the threats have been so serious that the prefect of Milan, Renato Saccone, held at a meeting on Wednesday with the committee for security and public order, where it was agreed that Ms Segre needed police protection. |
| The measures that were approved include Ms Segre being accompanied in public by two paramilitary carabinieri officers. | The measures that were approved include Ms Segre being accompanied in public by two paramilitary carabinieri officers. |
| Meanwhile, the Milan public prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation into the hate messages targeting the senator and had requested the assistance of Italy's anti-terror police. | Meanwhile, the Milan public prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation into the hate messages targeting the senator and had requested the assistance of Italy's anti-terror police. |
| More on the Holocaust: | More on the Holocaust: |
| Ms Segre was born in Milan in 1930. She fled Nazi persecution in Italy with her father in December 1943. | Ms Segre was born in Milan in 1930. She fled Nazi persecution in Italy with her father in December 1943. |
| After failing to secure refuge in Switzerland, the pair were sent by train to the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland the following month, where her father and grandparents were killed. | |
| Along with other Jewish prisoners transferred from Auschwitz in January 1945, Ms Segre was taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. | Along with other Jewish prisoners transferred from Auschwitz in January 1945, Ms Segre was taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. |
| Weeks later she was moved to another camp operated by the Nazis which was eventually liberated by the Soviet Red Army. | Weeks later she was moved to another camp operated by the Nazis which was eventually liberated by the Soviet Red Army. |
| Ms Segre was made an Italian senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in January 2018. | Ms Segre was made an Italian senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in January 2018. |
| Italy has a population of about 30,000 Jews. More than 7,500 Italian Jews died during the Holocaust. | Italy has a population of about 30,000 Jews. More than 7,500 Italian Jews died during the Holocaust. |