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Charlotte Knobloch

Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch delivers a speech at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 during a special meeting commemorating the victims of the Holocaust on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
September 13, 2026, 11:03 am
German Jewish leader, a Holocaust survivor, gets death threat linked to victory of far-right AfD
‘The AfD has won, now we will hang Knobloch’ found scrawled on bench with Star of David; 93-year-old has said she’s ‘frightened’ by party’s success, called for potential ban
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, affixes a mezuzah to the doorframe of the Centre for Jewish Life in Munich, Germany on September 19, 2023. (CER)
September 20, 2023, 11:44 am
Orthodox European rabbinical group finds a home in Munich, with new funding
After decamping post-Brexit UK, the Conference of European Rabbis becomes first major international Jewish group to open its headquarters in Germany since the Holocaust
By Canaan Lidor
Charlotte Knobloch, second from right, attends a ceremony at the Regensburg Synagogue in Munich, Germany, Feb. 27, 2019. (Andreas Gebert/Getty Images via JTA)
January 15, 2022, 1:46 pm
Holocaust survivor leads Munich’s Jews, while living under police guard
Charlotte Knobloch, 89, is at the head of the German Jewish community during its unlikely revival, but admits concerns for its future: ‘We need to hang in and hope for better days’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a press conference after a meeting with social partners, in Meseberg, eastern Germany, on September 3, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)
September 25, 2021, 6:11 am
‘A steadfast ally’: Angela Merkel’s departure a sad moment for many German Jews
Leaders describe outgoing chancellor as ‘a reliable partner for the Jewish community,’ with a legacy where ‘the good greatly outweighs the bad’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
AfD Federal Chairman Alexander Gauland delivers a speech during the official beginning of the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) state election campaign in Arnstadt, Germany, on September 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
May 7, 2020, 8:59 am
German far-right politician slammed for calling Nazi defeat ‘an ambivalent day’
Alternative for Germany’s Alexander Gauland says end of conflict marked a ‘loss of the possibility to shape things’ and should not be made a holiday
By AP
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community Munich, gives a speech during a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial site at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Matthias Balk)
October 28, 2019, 12:58 pm
Jewish groups voice fear over German far-right surge
Munich community leader, a Holocaust survivor, says booming support for AfD shows political system ‘has gone off the rails’
By AFP
Members of German hard rock band Rammstein dressed as concentration camp inmates standing on a gallows, in a video for a new single released March 26, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
March 28, 2019, 12:35 pm
German band Rammstein blasted for concentration camp video
Jewish groups, government anti-Semitism official criticize as ‘tasteless’ hard rock band’s promotion video featuring members as Jewish inmates
By AFP
People mourn on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, January 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
January 25, 2019, 6:11 pm
Buchenwald memorial bans German far-right AfD from Holocaust ceremony
AfD not welcome until they ‘credibly distance themselves from the anti-democratic, anti-human rights, and historical revisionist positions’ of their party
By AP
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community Munich, gives a speech during a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial site at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Matthias Balk)
January 24, 2019, 9:38 pm
German Jewish leader ‘threatened’ after criticizing far-right AfD
In speech on Holocaust victims, Charlotte Knobloch called party a threat to democracy, sparking torrent of ‘threats and insults’
By AFP
More than a dozen lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany walked out of Bavarian state parliament during a tribute to Holocaust victims at the Bavarian Parliament in Munich, Germany, January 23, 2019. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
January 23, 2019, 10:37 pm
German far-right lawmakers walk out of speech by Holocaust survivor
AfD members’ protest in Bavaria comes as Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, accuses the party of downplaying Nazi crimes
By David Rising
Illustrative image of a 'Stolperstein,' or stumbling stone, in Berlin, November 9, 2013. (AFP/Johannes Eisele)
July 28, 2018, 8:50 am
Munich begins swapping out ‘disrespectful’ Holocaust memorials
New plaques replace commemorative cobblestones after complaints they are stepped on and get dirty
By ToI Staff
German Jewish community leader Charlotte Knobloch, seen in Jerusalem in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 26, 2018, 10:53 pm
Jewish anti-Israel activist loses court case against German Jewish leader
Blogger Abraham Melzer, who called Israeli ministers ‘Nazi broads,’ sued Munich community head for convincing hosts to cancel event invitations
By JTA
Extreme right-wings demonstrators gather prior to a neo-Nazi rally on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess in Berlin Spandau on August 19, 2017. AFP/Tobias SCHWARZ)
December 31, 2017, 2:03 am
Jewish leader decries ‘commonplace’ anti-Semitism in Germany
Charlotte Knobloch says community life can only take place under police protection, days after Hannukah menorah vandalized
By ToI Staff
Members of the nationalist German AfD, 'Alternative for Germany', celebrate during the election party in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017, after the polling stations for the German parliament elections had been closed. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
September 24, 2017, 11:58 pm
Loathed by Jews, Germany’s far-right AfD loves the Jewish state
Candidates for nationalist Alternative for Germany, derided as anti-Semitic, overwhelmingly profess to hold pro-Israel positions, poll shows
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community center, after a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Rostock, northern Germany, January 8, 2009. (AP/ Thomas Haentzschel/File)
September 9, 2017, 2:54 am
Far-right is driving German anti-Semitism, government says
Interior Ministry finds 92% of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel offenses in 2017 were committed by right-wing extremists
By JTA
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