This Thursday evening the 1. FC Union Berlin team will play Maccabi Haifa in the group stage of the Europa Conference League.
This morning, a ten-man delegation headed by President Dirk Zingler and Managing Director Oskar Kosche travelled to Jerusalem, about two hours away by bus. There, the club representatives visited the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. A staff member of the Israeli embassy in Berlin also took part in the two-hour tour.
Zingler and Kosche laid a wreath for 1. FC Union in the memorial hall, in whose floor the names of the 22 largest concentration camps are engraved. Zingler also signed the book of the children’s memorial, which commemorates 1.5 million Jewish children who were killed. “It was a deep need for us to use our official trip to Israel to visit this special place and I am very grateful that we were able to be here, “ said Zingler. “Anti-Semitism is unfortunately still present in our society and we are all challenged to fight it consistently.”
During the first leg against Haifa in Berlin (3-0), there had been anti-Semitic incidents by a few Union fans. Union condemned this in the strongest possible terms. One club member has already been expelled.
