Netanyahu and his wife Sara visits Platform 17 memorial in Berlin

From PM's Office:

Today I participated in a memorial service for the Holocaust victims at platform 17 in Berlin. My standing today at this platform symbolizes our people's victory over those who tried to destroy us. Throughout history the attacks upon us always came in two waves. The overt and familiar one is the wave of physical attacks, expulsions, pogroms and murders. But there was always a preliminary wave of blood libels and terrible calumnies against the Jewish people.

Against these two factors our people was defenseless but currently we have established a state of our own. The government of Israel like all its predecessors is stating Israel's truth to the nations of the world, and the IDF and the security forces protect our people against those who attempt to exterminate us.

- Bibi Netanyahu

Memorial "Gleis 17" (platform 17) at railway station Berlin-Grunewald for the 50.000 Berlin Jews who were deported to a concentration camp from here between October 1941 and February 1945. This design with steel plates listing all transports was created by the architects Nicolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch and Andrea Wandel. Public release was on January 27, 1998.