John McGurk, Scottish extreme runner, in a traditional outfit on Saturday at the Brandenburg Gate Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Christopher Soeder
From BZ/dpa
With a “peace run” to Warsaw, Scottish extreme runner John McGurk wants to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and at the same time collect donations for disadvantaged children.
On Saturday, McGurk and his team presented themselves at the symbolic start at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The charity run will be over 1300 kilometers.
Along the way, the runners plan to lay wreaths in the former Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka II. At the same time, donations are to be collected for projects such as the Arche, which takes care of around 4,500 children from poor families in Germany. The run should end in a few days at Arka in Warsaw – the Polish Ark.
Prominent support: Ex-Bundesliga professional Pablo Thiam, actresses Susan Sideropoulos and Natalia Avelon, John McGurk, actress Franziska Troegner and Bernd Siggelkow, founder of Arche Photo: picture alliance/dpa
The founder of the Arche, Bernd Siggelkow, as well as the “Arche ambassadors” Natalia Avelon and Susan Sideropoulos, actress Franziska Troegner and Arche ambassador and ex-Bundesliga professional Pablo Thiam were present in Berlin.