Berlin 27 – 01 – 2010
Mr Simon Peres is visiting Berlin for ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ on Wednesday, which in 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concetration camp by the victorious Red Army.
Today a delegation of Holocaust survivors along with German President Horst Koehler and Mr Peres will visit former ‘Grunewald railway station’ in north-west Berlin. Its’ infamous ‘Track # 17’ was used during the war as a departure point for most of the 55,000 Berlin Jews who were forced from their homes and deported to Nazi concentration camps in the 2nd World War.
A commemorative plaque and a memorial mark the spot where Jews from Berlin were loaded onto trains from 1941 until 1945. It has since become an impressive and painful memorial to the 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.
Since Peres has arrived in Berlin on Monday, there have been many security road closures put in place which have caused traffic jams in the centre of the city – which is also under a Siberian cold spell where temperatures have plunged to -21C.
This unprecendent security has called on duty 3,000 police officers who have been deployed all over the city,
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