Overview

• Cardinal Pietro Parolin stated that one does not go to Auschwitz on a trip but to remember a vast tragedy and to confront rising antisemitism.
• Family Minister Eugenia Roccella said she fully agrees, adding that visits should honor victims and strengthen efforts against antisemitism today.
• Roccella’s initial remarks at a Union of Jewish Communities event suggested school visits had been promoted to present antisemitism as a past, fascist-era issue.
• The comments drew sharp criticism from Senator Liliana Segre and opposition parties, with PD leader Elly Schlein urging Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to distance herself.
• Roccella offered to appear before the parliamentary Segre Commission to clarify her position on Holocaust memory and contemporary antisemitism.