
Hiding and Surviving: Growing Up Under National Socialism
Charlotte Knobloch was born Charlotte Neuland in Munich in October 1932, three months before Hitler took power. Her father Siegfried "Fritz" Neuland was a lawyer barred from practicing under Nazi race laws, her mother left the family under Gestapo pressure, and her grandmother Albertine became her main caregiver. At six she watched the November 1938 pogrom tear through Munich's Jewish shops and streets. When deportations began in 1941, her father placed her with Kreszentia Hummel, a devout Catholic farmer's wife in Middle Franconia, who hid her by passing her off as her own illegitimate daughter. Now in her nineties and president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, Knobloch narrates her own story on camera, walking through the fear, betrayal, and disguise that kept her alive while so many relatives did not survive. The film relies on her direct testimony alongside archival photographs and footage of prewar and wartime Munich, tracing how a single act of shelter determined a child's fate under a regime built to erase her.