Strong reactions have caused a statement by the Italian Minister responsible for the family, Eujenia rochetwith immediate reference to the “memory visits” of school students to Auschwitz’s Nazi extermination camp.

“Excursions to Auschwitz used to tell us that anti -Semitism was a period that was in a clear space: fascism,” the Italian minister said. “For this reason, they were encouraged and exploited,” she added during her intervention at a conference of her Union of Jewish communities.

The head of the Italian opposition and secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Slain asked the prime minister Georgia “Get clear distances from this uncharted statement.”

The Italian lifelong senator Liliana Segrewhich managed to survive the Nazi atrocity in Auschwitz, said that “it is difficult to believe that a government minister, having described” school visits “to Auschwitz, was able to say that they were encouraged to support him.”

And Rizospast Ricardo MaggieSecretary of the “More Europe” party, he said that “thanks to the living memory of the Holocaust (Soa) and the rejection of fascism, thanks to initiatives such as memory visits from school students to Auschwitz, it matured to the younger generations and its steady rejection.”

Responding to the series of critical statements, the Italian minister responsible for the family emphasized: “I understand that the Left, with the triumph for the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza Francesca Albanese, the banners of the 7th October Trump succeeded, he no longer knows what to do. All she stays with is to pretend that she does not understand and to tool the words of others. “