Survivor of Holocaust, Munich attack heads back to Germany
Associated PressBERGEN-BELSEN, 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. “It’s not a pleasant thing to recall the period here,” Ladany said in an interview with The Associated Press at the former concentration camp. When he came to Munich for the Olympics at 36 years old, he said, he tried to guess the age of every German he met, and “if in my mind he would have been age-wise in the age group that might have participated in the Third Reich’s atrocities, I prevented any contact.” However, this time it wasn’t the Germans who posed a threat to his life. Ladany said that while before the attack the Olympics was purely “a sports meeting of joy and competition,” today no such event is held without strict security.
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