Minor planet discovered by Lincoln Laboratory named for noted Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre

In 1943, 13-year-old Liliana Segre and her widowed father were deported from Milan, Italy, to the Nazis’ Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Separated from her father, Liliana was selected to work in a munitions factory at the camp and tattooed with the number 75190. In 2021, 76 years after her liberation from Auschwitz, Liliana Segre was honored by the naming of minor planet 75190 as Segreliliana. Segre was recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which is charged with officially naming celestial bodies, for her 30 years of speaking out…

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