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Jewish life ‘flourishes’ in Munich, 85 years after Kristallnacht

Shoah survivor Charlotte Knobloch said that, contrary to the world's expectations, 'the heart of European Jewry beats in Bavaria today'

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MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 19: Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community Munich and Upper Bavaria, (L) and Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) and exiled former Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia, speaks the opening of the new European CER headquarters on September 19, 2023 in Munich, Germany. The Conference of European Rabbis is the umbrella organisation representing hundreds of mainstream Orthodox Jewish communities across Europe. (Photo by Leonhard Simon/Getty Images)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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The family grave of family Ulma is pictured in Markowa on September 10, 2023 during the beatification of the Ulma family. A Polish couple and their seven children, murdered in 1944 by the Nazis for hiding Jews, were beatified in Poland, a first for an entire family in the Catholic Church. (Photo by BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP) (Photo by BARTOSZ SIEDLIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Family killed by Nazis for sheltering Jews beatified by Catholic church

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1943: Fire breaks out during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a Polish insurrection against the German forces who had occupied Poland at the start of World War II. By 1944 Warsaw was the centre of Polish resistance, but the army was forced to surrender on October 2nd 1944 under pressure from German air raids. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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German airport staff ask rabbi to remove kippah, against official policy

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2KG36D7 Hanover, Germany. 21st Nov, 2022. Michael Furst, Chairman of the Hanover Jewish Community, delivers a speech during an event for the ordination of rabbis by the Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin in the synagogue of the Hanover Jewish Community. Five rabbis and one Baal Tefilla, a prayer leader, are to receive their ceremonial ordination. According to the Office of the Federal President, this is the first Orthodox rabbinic ordination in Lower Saxony since the end of World War II. Credit: Michael Matthey/dpa/Alamy Live News

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Orthodox Jews banned from renting holiday homes by German travel firm

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