Munich (dpa / lby) - Guests from politics, religion and society will celebrate Charlotte Knobloch's 90th birthday with a ceremony on Sunday (3.30 p.m.). Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, are expected to honor the President of the Jewish Community in Munich and Upper Bavaria (ikg). Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) shows highlights of the ceremony from 11.15 p.m. on BR television and in the media library.
Knobloch was born on October 29, 1932 in Munich. She survived the Holocaust on a farm in Middle Franconia, where an acquaintance of the family passed her off as her own illegitimate child. After the Second World War, Knobloch returned to Munich. Since then she has campaigned energetically and combatively for the rights of Jews in Germany and against anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism. In 1985 she became President of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria. She is also the World Jewish Congress Commissioner for Holocaust Remembrance. From 2006 to 2010 she was also President of the Central Council of Jews.
