The horror told by those who experienced it firsthand when they were the age of the students who attend the first class of the Liceo Azuni in Sassari.

To celebrate the Day of Remembrance, Thursday 27 January the Sassari school will propose a long interview to the writer Edith Bruck, witness of the Hungarian Shoah, made by Margherita Sussarellu, teacher of the musical high school and collaborator of various newspapers under the pseudonym of Maggie S Lorelli.

Edith Bruck, now 90, is the youngest of six children in a Jewish family. She was deported to Auschwitz at the age of thirteen, in 1944, and then moved to other German concentration camps up to that of Bergen-Belsen, where she was released in 1945 along with a sister, while they never returned home. the mother, the father, a brother and other family members. In Rome since 1954, it was adopted by Italy who named her Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Attilio Mastino, historian, academic and essayist, former professor of Roman history and rector of the University of Sassari, will also speak at the meeting moderated by the journalist Gianni Garrucciu, with a report on the theme of exile in the Roman Age and a particular reference to the events of four thousand Jews exiled to Sardinia by the emperor Tiberius to fight the brigandage and the expulsion from Benghazi of the "Beronicenses" by the emperor Hadrian, who were also sent to Sardinia on the island of Sulci to work in the imperial mines.

There will also be three musical interludes: with pieces by Morera, Williams and Hoffenbach, thanks to the duet and the chamber music class composed by some students of the 4th L, 4th M and 5th L classes of the musical high school, directed in two of these interpretations by the teacher Vittoria Mura.