Munich Olympics Massacre
Assaf Stolarz brainstormed the idea with Hungarian friend Peter Edgo prior to the 50th anniversary of the massacre on Sept. 5, 1972.
The Olympic Committee of Israel said it was “moved to tears to experience the exciting continuity of Israeli sports on Munich soil.”
German arrested for Nazi salute to Israeli athletes visiting 1972 Munich massacre memorial
Israel’s ambassador to Berlin retweeted an article claiming the offending security guard was of “Arab descent,” and connected the incident with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s claim that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts.”
The mention of the word “Holocausts” drew a grimace from Scholz but no denunciation.
The families canceled their attendance at the 50-year anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games over a dispute with the German government regarding compensation.
Fifty years after Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 members of the Israeli delegation to the 1972 Munich Olympics, German handball player Klaus Langhoff, who was right across the street, recalls the horrific events.
The families are threatening to boycott the attack’s 50th anniversary commemoration in September if the current proposal stands.
He broke records in the 1972 Munich Olympics, refusing to let the devastating events of those games break his spirit or his Jewish pride.
“We know that no ceremony can ever fill the void left by those whose lives were taken so violently,” said Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee.
The families of the 11 killed have been asking the International Olympic Committee for this gesture of respect for decades, but until now have been turned down.
In a historic first, the air forces of the two countries together will honor the more than 30,000 Jews murdered at the Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust and the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists in the 1972 “Munich Massacre.”
Eva Szekely broke six world records, won 44 national titles, got a gold in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 and earned a silver in the same race at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.
