Passing of Bruno Segre, a 105-year-old Anti-fascist Hero and Advocate for Civil Rights

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Bruno Segre, a lawyer, journalist, and partisan known as 'Elio' in the groups that participated in the liberation of Caraglio and Cuneo, died in Turin at the age of 105. Born in Turin on September 4, 1918, he graduated in law in 1940, but due to racial laws, he could not practice as a lawyer because he was the son of a Jewish parent. Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano new citizens of Orvieto Arrested in 1942 and detained for several months in the New Prison in Turin, in 1944 he was again imprisoned in the barracks in Asti Street, Turin, the headquarters of the political investigative office of the National Republican Guard. He was also a city councilor in Turin, group leader of the Socialist Party, from 1975 to 1980. Among his many political and legal battles for civil rights, he advocated for the divorce law and even chartered a plane to drop thousands of propaganda leaflets over the city: he was a monument of anti-fascism.