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Sports – Hanover:Exhibition about Shaul Ladany: Survived concentration camp and assassination
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Hanover (dpa/lni) – An exhibition about the life of the Olympic walker and the Holocaust survivor Shaul Ladany opened in the Academy of Sports in Hanover on Thursday evening. The 86-year-old survived the 1944 Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the 1972 attack by Palestinian terrorists on the unlimited team at the Olympic Games in Munich.
Ladany took part in two Olympic Games, still holds the world record for the non-Olympic walking distance of 50 miles, he was a professor of engineering and at the age of 13 began collecting documents from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and later also objects to collect the Olympic assassination attempt in Munich. This resulted in a traveling exhibition entitled “CVs. Persecution and Survival as Reflected in the Shaul Ladany Collection”, which is on loan from the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Hanover until the end of February. At the opening on Thursday, the 86-year-old was absent for a short time due to illness.
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