An Auschwitz survivor has been assigned police protection in Italy for fielding death threats on social media.

Now 89, Liliana Segre was 13 when she was sent to Auschwitz, a camp where her father was killed. The death threats only increased — almost 200 a day — after the parliament approved her proposal for an anti-racism commission. This motion called for the creation of a commission to combat all forms of racism. This, including anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence on ethnic and religious grounds in Italy. The motion however, moved forward without a single vote from Italy’s right wing parties.

With the parliamentary proposal passed, the Milan-born, senator for life was quoted by Italy’s La Repubblica as saying,

“I appealed to the conscience of everyone and thought that a commission against hatred as a principle would be accepted by all.”

Salvini reportedly said that he didn’t support the commission because he was worried it would impose limits on freedom of expression “and the right to say ‘Italians first.’”

Liliana was only 13 when she and several other family members were deported to Auschwitz. While her father died in the camp, she was one amongst the 35 of 776 Italian children that survived the concentration camp.

According to a key survey of 12 EU countries, anti-Semitism is getting worse and Jews are increasingly worried about the risk of harassment across Europe. And 84 years after Allied Nations crushed fascism in World War II, this is the latest to send shockwaves across Europe and the world.

Fuck Fascism🖕 #LilianaSegre pic.twitter.com/uTryZnYT0v

— Gaetano Luciano (@GaeLuciano) November 7, 2019