Adnkronos Rome, October 12 (Adnkronos) – "Minister Roccella has crossed all limits. Her comments on school trips to Auschwitz represent a serious attempt to rewrite history and shift responsibilities," said Sandro Ruotolo, head of Memory in the Democratic Party's national secretariat and a member of the European Parliament.
According to the minister, those visits did not serve to commemorate the extermination of the Jews but only to "place anti-Semitism within fascism," almost as if to transform anti-fascism into a problem.
"An unacceptable thesis," Ruotolo continues. "Auschwitz remains the most tragic symbol of the complicity between Nazism and Fascism in the extermination of the Jewish people. Questioning the value of memory demeans the Holocaust and insults the victims. As Liliana Segre emphasized, "the education of our children and grandchildren must begin with a knowledge of history: the memory of historical truth only harms those who keep skeletons in their closets."
"Anti-Semitism must be fought everywhere and always, but fascism cannot be absolved by erasing its historical guilt. The memory of Auschwitz cannot be touched: it is a universal heritage of democracy and civilization," he concludes.