‘It has happened, it can happen again’: Angela Merkel cites Primo Levi at Auschwitz
The German chancellor has consistently spoken out against anti-Semitism, has previously visited Dachau and Buchenwald camps and has been to Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem four times
07 December 2019 - 08:59
Berlin — When Angela Merkel heard about the deadly anti-Semitic attack in eastern Germany in October, she rushed to Oranienburger Strasse synagogue to be with Berlin’s Jewish community.
Local Jews had gathered there for the Yom Kippur holiday and feared they might be targeted next. Merkel met a small group in the upper chambers and talked about the complex feelings of revulsion and shame the attack had prompted...
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