Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz joined Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal for a memorial ceremony at ‘Gleis17’, the railway station from where Jews were taken to the extermination camps.
By Anash.org reporter
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz joined Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal for a memorial ceremony at ‘Gleis17’, the railway station from where Jews were taken to the extermination camps.
The two leaders held a memorial ceremony for the victims of the Holocaust at Platform 17 in Berlin together with a number of Holocaust survivors and representatives of the German Jewish community.
The ceremony opened with a moment of silence, the placing of wreaths, and the lighting of a memorial flame by the Prime Minister and Chancellor. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel, Chief Rabbi and Head Shliach of Berlin recited the prayer in memory of the six million victims.
For Netanyahu, the main focus of his visit to Berlin is addressing the Iranian nuclear threat. “The calls to destroy the Jewish people have not ended,” Netanyahu said. “the main lesson we have learned is that when we are faced with such evil, we must stop the evil’s plans early to prevent a disaster.”
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