On the occasion of the renewed opening of "The First Station" in Jerusalem in May 2013, The IDF and Defense Establishment Archive presents historic photographs of Jerusalem's train station, from the archive collection
Some of the photographs were taken during the First World War, others are from 1949. We use the occasion to congratulate the city of Jerusalem.
In June 1917, General Erich Von Falkenhayn, newly appointed to command two Ottoman armies in Palestine arrived at the train station in Jerusalem. On his right stands Djemal Pasha, the Ottoman commander of Syria and Palestine. The girl is Falkenhayn's daughter, Erika, who was later married to General Henning von Tresckow, one of the leaders of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler in July 1944. You may read about the father and daughter in the State Archive Blog.