The Campobasso City Council remembers the figure of Lucy Salani, the only Italian transsexual woman to survive the Nazi concentration camps

The Campobasso City Council remembers the figure of Lucy Salani, the only Italian transsexual woman to survive the Nazi concentration camps.

In opening of the works of the Campobasso municipal council, convened today to discuss the update note to the DUP 2023-2025 and the outline of the financial forecast budget for the three-year period 2023/2025, the councilor of the 5 Star Movement, Nicola Simonetti, wanted remember the figure of Lucy Salani.

“In the name of coherence and in line with what was expressed by the 5 Star Movement, – declared councilor Simonetti – today we want to remember Lucy Salani, who died on March 22, 2023, at almost 99 years old, activist, known as the only Italian transsexual woman to survive the Nazi concentration camps. Born in Fossano in 1924, Lucy Salani grew up in Bologna. She was anti-fascist, after having deserted both the Italian fascist and Nazi armies, she was deported to Dachau in 1944."

«The real Hell began in that concentration camp. Dante's was nothing in comparison." he said the same thing Lucy Salani. After returning home, his mother fainted: «I have already returned to Dachau three times after the liberation and every time I feel a sensation that I cannot describe. I have a blockage and the tears keep falling. It is impossible to forget and forgive. Some nights I still dream of the most horrendous things I've seen and I feel like I'm still in there and that's why I want people to know what happened in the concentration camps so that it doesn't happen again."

“Lucy is gone, but her memory and her story will remain engraved not only in the memory of those who, like us, loved her, but also in the collective memory of our country”. i say it directors of the documentary “There is only a breath of life”, Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, who shared the last years of her life with her. “We had the privilege and fortune of meeting Lucy a few years ago and from that moment – ​​they say – an indissoluble bond began, a bond that goes beyond the artistic and professional aspects. Lucy became a human point of reference for us and for the many people who knew her story and who loved her for her resistance, her pride, her extraordinary strength."

“Our closeness – Simonetti said in conclusion – goes to Lucy Salani's family and to those who, even today, seek freedom free from any classification. Our embrace of the LGBT community.”