Yovel Zoosman, you played with your grandmother's name on your back in Alba Berlin's Bundesliga match against Hamburg on Wednesday, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Who is Liba Yesterday?

Michael Reinsch

Correspondent for sports in Berlin.

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She was born in Warsaw and belonged to a group called the Children of Tehran.

She and her sister are the only survivors in her family from the war and the Holocaust.

They were Jews, but they were raised Christian to survive.

They escaped from Poland to Russia.

In the process, they lost their parents.

They were practically orphans.

In their flight, trying to survive, as far as I know, they came to Siberia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan.

After all, they were brought to Palestine from Tehran in a group of about a thousand children – on ships.

I often asked her about her past, I often wanted to know how she lived and how she survived.

She doesn't want to talk about it.

She doesn't want to remember.

Is your grandmother still alive?

She lives.

She will soon be 89 years old and can no longer walk.

She tries to watch every game I play.

I feel honored to have her last name on the shirt.

When we played with Alba at Maccabi Tel Aviv, it was very special.

After the game I visited her.

I hope to see you again in the summer.

I wouldn't be who I am without her.

Without her I wouldn't be in the world at all.

That's why I want to honor my family, my background and my ancestors.

What happened to Liba's parents yesterday?

She doesn't talk about it.

I'm sure my father knows, but he didn't tell me.

I am becoming more and more interested in the history of my family.

My father's father came to Israel from Russia.

He too lost his family in the war and the Holocaust.

My name, Zoosman, is originally the name of Süssmann.

history in a name.

My first name also stands for history.

Yovel means jubilee in Hebrew, the year of jubilation.

Israel was founded in 1948 and when I was born in 1998 I was given that name.

That's why I wear the number fifty on my jersey.

You live and play as a professional in the country of criminals.

How do you feel?

I have the feeling that people in Germany and in Berlin really want to remember what happened back then.

I come across these shiny metal plaques all over town...

...Stumbling blocks that commemorate abducted and murdered Jewish fellow citizens at their places of residence.

The Holocaust memorial in the middle of Berlin: I see it as a sign of solidarity and an effort to come to terms with what happened in the past.

As an expression of respect for what was happening to our people.

Before I went to Berlin, I asked my grandmother what she thought of it.

It's okay with her.

She said this is my life, my choice.

There are anti-Semitic demonstrations in Berlin, most recently in the past week.

How do you feel?

I don't want to delve too deeply into politics.

This is not good.

However, today I felt obliged to wear my name and wear a black ribbon on the strap of my jersey.

It's the least I can do for my family, my country and my religion.