The remarkable life of Eva Szekely
The remarkable life of Hungarian Olympic swimming champion and Holocaust survivor, Eva Szekely, who died in February 2020. Hear her story, told in her own words.
During World War Two, the Hungarian swimmer, Eva Szekely, was saved from the Holocaust because of her father's quick thinking and her own talent for swimming. Eva Szekely would go on to break six world records and become an Olympic gold medallist at the 1952 Helsinki games. She died in February 2020. Louise Hidalgo tells her story using archive interviews with Eva Szekely held at the USC Shoah Foundation in the United States.
Picture: Eva Szekely on her way to victory at the 1952 Olympics (Credit: Empics/PA)
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