90-year-old Italian Jewish writer Edith Bruck, a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, rejected an award from the city of Anzio, in central Italy, after learning that it holds honorary citizenship for fascist dictator Benito Mussolini . “Thank you, but I cannot accept the Peace Prize, where nostalgia for the time of a more shameful time is still active, indelible for those who lived it,” wrote Bruck in an open letter to the Mayor of Anzio, Candido De Angelis. Edith Bruck, born in Hungary but with Italian nationality, had received the Peace Prize with which the municipality of...
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