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Remembering the star athletes whose lives were touched by the holocaust | FEATURE

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With each passing year, their names, their stories, become more distant relics of the past. But for those whose lives were touched by the most horrifying of atrocities, there’s an onus on the rest of us to never forget.
And on this, the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, it’s as good a time as any to remind ourselves of their stories.
Among the many millions whose lives were either lost or forever altered during the first half of the 1940s was a horde of world-class athletes. Some of them had excelled on the track or in the field long before Nazi Germany began its mass genocide of European Jews, while others managed to escape the atrocities and later flourished in the world of sport. ....

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Survivors in Britain who escaped Nazi Germany mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Survivors who fled to Britain to escape Nazi Germany lit candles and paid poignant tributes to victims today as they marked Holocaust Memorial Day.
Boris Johnson met with a Holocaust survivor and a Second World War veteran and warned Britons not to get complacent about the atrocity.
The Prime Minister spoke with Renee Salt, a survivor of both Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, and Second World War veteran Ian Forsyth during a video call from Downing Street to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Leisel Carter revealed how she lost most of her family in the Holocaust and spent time with foster families in Norway and Britain before eventually settling in Yorkshire. ....

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