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Charlotte Knobloch
Kristallnacht
November 9, 2023, 9:32 am
Virtual reality experience to mark 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht
Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch's testimony takes the viewer on a personal journey
By Jenni Frazer
Memorial wall to Munich's 4,000 Jewish Holocaust victims, Ohel Jakob synagogue. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg, September 2023
September 22, 2023, 9:35 am
OPINION: Reluctant reflection: My journey into Germany’s Jewish future
Anxiously travelling to Germany for the first time, Michelle Rosenberg found a city still haunted by its past despite efforts to move into the future.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Chief Rabbi 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. Photo Credits: Rober Gongoll, CER
September 20, 2023, 9:08 pm
Conference of European Rabbis opens new HQ in Munich
This centre is a "symbol of hope and a message to all the dark forces that threaten the Jewish people," says CER President Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
By Michelle Rosenberg
The German band Rammstein is taking heat for portraying concentration camp prisoners in a video. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
March 30, 2019, 5:37 pm
German band Rammstein criticised for dressing as camp prisoners in video
Several Jewish leaders condemned the video for hard-rockers' new track Deutchland, which depicted concentration camp victims
By JTA
Charlotte Knobloch
January 28, 2019, 8:03 pm
German Jewish leader gets threats after criticising far-right party
Charlotte Knobloch says she received hateful threats and insults by email and phone since her remarks about the AfD
By JTA
Charlotte Knobloch
January 24, 2019, 10:19 am
German Jewish leader claims far-right ‘downplay Nazis crimes’, causing walkout
More than a dozen far-right politicians walk out of the Bavarian parliament during a Shoah tribute after community leader Charlotte Knobloch's claims
By Jewish News Reporter
Stolperstein - or stumbling stone. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Willy Horsch
July 30, 2018, 4:11 pm
Munich introduces Shoah remembrance plaques to replace ‘stumbling stones’
German city's new remembrance monuments serve as an answer to controversial blocks that some vehemently oppose
By JTA
Allen Grenell
June 8, 2018, 2:01 pm
German Jewish leader slams US envoy for praising European right wing parties
Munich community head criticises United States ambassador Allen Grenell for remarks which 'exacerbates the situation' of the far-right
By JTA
Charlotte Knobloch
January 1, 2018, 2:55 pm
Jewish life in Germany ‘in danger’ according to community leader
Charlotte Knobloch says due to anti-Semitism, police protection and major security precautions have become the norm
By JTA
Neo-Nazi demonstration in Leipzig, Germany met with anti-fascist protestors
September 11, 2017, 4:10 pm
Vast majority of anti-Semitism in Germany due to far-right, report shows
Between January and August 92 percent of anti-Semitic crimes were committed by those on the right according to a government tally
By JTA
Members of the AfD during their first convention in 2013 in Berlin
September 19, 2016, 2:03 pm
German Jewish leader calls far-right gains a ‘Nazi renaissance’
The anti-immigrant, Euro-sceptic populist 'Alternative for Germany' party has been criticised by the country's Jewish leaders
By Jewish News Reporter and JTA
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