"I find it really important that, as we remember the 80th anniversary of the liberation of our country from Nazi-fascism, a commemoration like this illuminates our gathering today". This was stated by Senator for Life Liliana Segre, a Holocaust survivor and active witness to the Shoah, during her address at Palazzo della Consulta, the seat of the Constitutional Court, at an event honoring Edoardo Volterra, a Jewish constitutional judge persecuted and exiled due to the racial laws of 1938. "I couldn't help but associate January 27 with this memory. Because those who lived that day have a distinct recall of it. In those days, prisoners in concentration camps like the one I was in, where you never read a newspaper and had no idea what was going on, saw large fires in the distance and heard planes fly overhead. We were aware that something was happening well before the 27th. The shift in the factory where I worked as a slave was cut short, and we were forced to depart to begin the death march; everyone who fell would be executed. I was so used to that view that I didn't turn back; I walked because I wanted to live. Some people believe that the war ended on January 27, however this is not the case. The war continued until early May, and until then, many died simply for the 'crime' of being born. I am still the Liliana of that time: I continue to walk forward despite the threats. One foot in front of the other. I am not afraid".