Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 03:12 AM Sep 2022

(Jewish Group) 'Ultimate survivor' of Holocaust and Munich Olympics attack returns to Germany

They call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Decades later, the 86-year-old is back in Germany to visit the two places where he narrowly avoided death.

Mr Ladany, who was born in 1936 in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia, brought family members to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany on Saturday to show them the place where he was imprisoned by the Nazis as an eight-year-old boy.

After that, the spry octogenarian will participate in a joint German-Israeli ceremony in Munich on Monday marking the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Olympians by Palestinian terrorists. He still holds a world record from the Games.

more...

Latest Discussions»Alliance Forums»Jewish Group»(Jewish Group) 'Ultimate ...