Background
Charlotte Knobloch was born in Munich, in 1932, into a well-to-do Jewish family of lawyers.
Charlotte Knobloch was born in Munich, in 1932, into a well-to-do Jewish family of lawyers.
She is also Vice President of the European Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. She has for many years been one of the primary leaders of the Jewish community in Munich, as President of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern since 1985. She is the daughter of Munich lawyer and Bavarian senator Fritz Neuland.
Upon the arrest of her father, Knobloch recalls being saved by the former housekeeper of the Neuland family, who took her in her hand and brought her to her Christian family in Franconia.
From 1942 onward, she lived with Catholic farmers in Franconia, who pretended she was their own illegitimate daughter. Charlotte Neuland married the late Samuel Knobloch in 1951, and has three children.
She was made an honorary citizen of Munich in 2005. Knobloch is especially concerned with the problem of antisemitism in Eastern Europe.
In the World Jewish Congress she works to promote the German-speaking Jewish communities and to build bridges to Jewish communities in other countries.
The book, Charlotte Knobloch - Ein Portrait, by Michael Schleicher was published in 2009. The television film Annas Heimkehr is based on Charlotte Knobloch"s life during World World War World War II