Having survived the Shoah, in the Silos I found myself in Auschwitz

(ANSA) – TRIESTE, MARCH 29 – “Visiting the Silos I found myself in Auschwitz or Birkenau”. This is the terrible comparison that Tatiana Bucci (85 years old), who survived the Nazi concentration camps together with her sister Andra (87), made when talking about her visit to the Silos last December. The TriestePrima website reports this, referring to the visit that the two sisters made today to the Town Hall, received by the mayor Roberto Dipiazza with whom they addressed some current issues during and on the sidelines of the press conference. Among these, also fascism: let the “new fascists” who “are still there today in the government apologize, we would like to hear just this little thing”. Arrested by the Nazis in Fiume, at the age of six, in 1944 together with their mother Mira Perlow, a Jew who had fled the pogroms in Russia, and some family members including their little cousin Sergio De Simone, the Bucci sisters were taken to the Risiera di San Sabba and subsequently deported to Germany by train, where they ended up in the hands of Josef Mengele and were miraculously saved. “I don’t know what courage we have – reports the TriestePrima website quoting Tatiana Bucci on the Silos – to let people who have chosen to leave their country for a better life live like this. I hope that a place with a bit of humanity will be found where they will be able to continue living and then go wherever they wish.” And on fascism Andra Bucci said: “In Germany they apologized to us and our feelings towards the Germans have changed, but unfortunately we have some grudges towards Italy because no one ever said ‘we were on the wrong side'”, because “if we were taken it was thanks to Mussolini’s government that was there at the time”. Today the two sisters bear witness to the horrors of Nazism by going to schools and meeting institutions. “We were saved because Mengele believed us to be twins”, they said, and were in fact kept alive as objects of interest for the experiments on twins, interned in the ‘Kinderblock’. They were saved thanks to a ‘blockeva’, a guardian who had become fond of them. (HANDLE).