In the long arc of Germany's reckoning with its past, Charlotte Knobloch — a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor who once survived by erasing her own identity — now watches as the Alternative for Germany party claims nearly 44 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, positioning itself to lead the first far-right state government since World War II. The decades of painstaking trust she helped rebuild between German Jews and their homeland feel, to her, suddenly precarious. Her warning is not merely political; it is the testimony of someone who knows, from the inside of history, how quickly the ground
Holocaust survivor warns of 'dangerous situation' after AfD's Saxony-Anhalt victory
Jewish community members considering emigration from Germany; Knobloch received death threats linked to AfD's election victory.