Germany investigates the 1970 anti -Semitic fire attack in Munich

Munich The public prosecutor reopened investigations on a fire attack On a Jewish retirement house in Munich, which caused the death of seven residents in February 1970, Bild reported last week, citing civil servants.

The senior public prosecutor Andreas Franch declared for the German average, “on January 31, 2025, The Munich The public prosecutor initiated an investigation into the fire attack on the medical care of the Israeli religious community. “

The investigations reopened after a witness presented to the Commissioner anti -Semitism for the Bavarian judicial system.

While little is public knowledge, Bild reported that the information provided by the witness is considered credible so far.

Victims of fire attack

Those killed during the fire attack of February 13, 1970, include Queen Rivka Becher, 59; David Jakubowicz, 59 years old; Rosa Drucker, 59 years old; Georg Eljakim Pfau, 63; Leopold Arie Leib Gimpel, 69 years; Siegfried Offenbacher, 71; and Meir Max Blum, 71.

An Israeli flag is thrown in front of the Israeli consulate after the German police opened fire on a suspect seeming a weapon near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in the center of Munich, Germany, September 5, 2024 (Credit: Reuters/Karpaviciute) thinking.

Two of the victims, Jakubowicz and Pfau, were Holocaust survivors. While Jakukbowicz was originally from Czechoslovakia, Pfau owned both German and Israeli citizenship Jewish telegraph agency. Offenbacher also had Israeli citizenship.

Another 13 people were injured and a synagogue was damaged.

The fire was started by the gasoline poured into the scale of the medical care of the Israeli religious community, and the fire spread quickly.

In 2012, a witness was assumed to be presented, but later it was established that the information, that the attack was made by an anti-Sionist anarchist group, was not credible.

An anonymous source claimed in an article for German magazine Focus on In 2013, that the extremist extremist Tupamaros West-Berlin was responsible for the attack that was investigated by the authorities until 2017, when the survey closed. The group did not think he was responsible.

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The fire attack came just three days after the Palestinian terrorists attacked the Munich airport and tried to hijack an Al. The German-Israeli passenger Arie Katzenstein was killed during the attack when he threw on a grenade launched by terrorists, saving the life of his colleagues.

Dr. Charlotte Knobloch, vice -president of the European Jewish Congress and the Jewish World Congress, told Stiftung last year that “this attack was not just the most fatal anti -Semitic attack in post -war German history, but also destroyed a place in Jewish life in Munich.”