(Jewish group) Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch leads Germany's Jews into an uncertain future

Walking alongside two young men around this city’s main synagogue, Charlotte Knobloch looks like a Jewish grandmother enjoying a stroll with her grandsons.

Knobloch, the 89-year-old president of the Jewish Community of Munich and upper Bavaria and likely the only Holocaust survivor leading a large Jewish community today, is indeed a grandmother of seven. But the men are not related to her.

They are police officers belonging to a security detail that was assigned to her years ago in connection with threats on Knobloch’s life by neo-Nazis.

One of the best-known Jews living in Germany today, Knobloch’s personal life story is intertwined with the unlikely revival of German Jewry after the Holocaust — and the growing uncertainty about its future.


Children play soccer outside the Ohel Jakob Synagogue in Munich, Germany on Nov. 23, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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I saw and took pictures of the above synagogue. It is very interesting and right next to a Jewish museum.