Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff’s notebook: Entering Auschwitz with the German president – Through the tears, the joint journey into the past showed how far we have come in building better ties between both peoples | Timesofisrael

It was still dark as we took off in the early morning from Berlin and I was trying to collect my thoughts as we began a journey that would last longer than the four-hour flight to Israel. The next week would include attending the Holocaust Forum in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.