Italian Sen. Liliana Segre, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, told the gathering that she was denied the right to education when Italy’s fascist-era racial laws went into effect in 1938 and Jewish children were barred from school.
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“So, as a 90-year-old grandmother, I tell my ‘brothers’ and `sisters' who reach this age to not be afraid and to take the vaccine," she said.
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