On March 17, 2004, an exhibition of paintings by Jewish artist Teofila Reich-Ranicki was opened in the meeting room of the city council.

In the presence of the artist and her husband, the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the Vice President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr. Salomon Korn, described the works as naively touching and oppressively intense.

The 16 pictures in the collection were taken in the Warsaw ghetto and show the brutality with which the Jewish inhabitants were harassed by the National Socialists.

Reich-Ranicki herself was very modest, stating that she had not wanted to create works of art but merely to capture the cruelty of everyday life in the ghetto. Without her aunt, who had smuggled the pictures out of the city, they would never have been handed down.

Mayor Diehl then praised Marcel Reich-Ranicki's work as a literary critic, saying that he had played a decisive role in shaping the German literary world for decades.

The couple then signed the city's Golden Book. The pictures were subsequently exhibited in the Jewish Museum in Spiegelgasse.

Both died in Frankfurt am Main, Teofila Reich-Ranicki on April 29, 2011, her husband Marcel on March 4, 2013.