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Shaul Ladany - the Great Survivor

The Israeli race-walker who survived the Holocaust and the Munich Olympics shootings in 1972.

Shaul Ladany is a long-distance Israeli race-walker who set world records that stand to this day. But, even more remarkably, he survived a childhood in the Belsen concentration camp and then the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

Shaul Ladany talks to Will Yates.

Picture: Shaul Ladany in action at the 1972 Olympics (from his personal archive)

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9 minutes

Last on

Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:50GMT

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