Five Rings and One Star : From Bergen-Belsen to Munich '72, the Story of Shaul Ladany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schiavon, Andrea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ladany, Shaul.

Olympic Games--(20th : 1972 : Munich, Germany).

Olympic Games.

Holocaust survivors--Israel--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Olympic athletes--Israel--Biography.

Olympic athletes.

College teachers--Israel--Biography.

College teachers.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Five Rings and One Star

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Birlinn, 2021.

Summary:

5 September, 1972. 4.30 a.m. The Munich Olympic Village. Black September, a group of Palestinian terrorists, break into the Israeli team's apartments. It is the beginning of the most tragic event in Olympic history and, after twenty hours, the day will end in a massacre, with the deaths of eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and a German policeman. This is the story of the race-walker Shaul Ladany: a survivor. But more than just a member of the Israeli team from those terrible events in Munich, Ladany was a survivor of the darkest period in twentieth century history, having been interred as a child at the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, the camp where Anne Frank died. For the second time in his life, Ladany has survived history. Ladany, the world record holder in the fifty-mile walk and a professor of industrial engineering, is one of Israel's most successful athletes, having won dozens of national championships and competed at both the 1968 and 1972 Olympics; he was a student at Columbia University in New York, a soldier in the Six Days War and the Yom Kippur War. From Eichmann to Sharon, from Bikila to All Blacks, from Nixon to Thatcher: they are all a part of Ladany's walk through the twentieth century. Award-winning author and journalist Andrea Schiavon tells Ladany's extraordinary life and, walking with him, chronicles a whole century of events in this astonishing, touching and epic biography -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

One: Munich, 5 September 1972

Two: Fifth birthday, the first bombardments

Three: A boy, Budapest and Eichmann

Four: Bergen-Belsen

Five: The Promised Land

Six: Shoshana

Seven: New York City

Eight: Eight thousand kilometres, six days of war

Nine: An Olympic professor: Mexico City 1968

Ten: A souvenir of death

Eleven: To the sounds of Big Ben

Twelve: Munich 1972: Dachau, the race, and the final hours together

Thirteen: World champion without permission

Fourteen: To war, paying his own way

Fifteen: Happy birthday, Dr Ladany

Sixteen: Surviving is up to chance, living again is a choice

Afterword: The first step

Plates Section.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781913538637

191353863X

OCLC:

1272990315