Liliana Segre, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become one of Italy's leading public witnesses to the Shoah, on Tuesday said she had recently received a text message saying "why don't you die?".
Speaking at a conference at Milan's Holocaust Memorial, Life Senator Segre said: "The world of hatred is so vast and ever-expanding.
"An avalanche of hatred that drives people to text me at 96, 'Why don't you die?' She said these were the same kind of threats she received over the phone in 1938, before her deportation.
"I can't and wouldn't want to go on much longer," but "I didn't expect that after everything that's happened, someone would still write to me like this at 96."
