Ben Helfgott, an Olympic weightlifter whose entire life was a show of strength, from his endurance as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps, to his exploits on the world’s athletic stage, died June 16 at his home in London. He was 93.
quoted him as saying. At the end of the World War II, “I was at the point of death, but here I was alive and kicking, representing my adopted country. There was sadness but also exhilaration.”in the lightweight category in Melbourne and 18th in the same category at the 1960 Games in Rome, where he again was captain of the British team.London Daily TelegraphIn subsequent years, as he pursued a career as a clothing manufacturer, Mr.
They were soon ordered into the Piotrkow ghetto, the first ghetto established by the Nazis in Poland, where some 20,000 Jews were crowded in unlivable conditions. Mr. Helfgott’s father, who had been a partner in a mill, smuggled in flour to help feed the ghetto’s residents, defying the Germans “at every stage,” his son recalled.
“I go almost crazy when I think about it,” he told Sports Illustrated. “He was killed like a dog and buried like a dog. Somewhere in a hole, and I’ll never know what place he was killed. I just imagine they threw him in a dustbin or buried him in a place where there is no sign of anything.”Mr. Helfgott was near death himself when Soviet troops liberated Theresienstadt in May 1945.. “We were eaten up by the bugs and lice.
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