Helena Mayer and the Berlin Olympics

Posted by Ron Kaplan on January 7, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Helena Mayer was a Olympic Gold Medalist fencer who represented Germany in the 1936 Berlin summer games. Why would this German Jewish woman agree to bring honor to a country that had rejected her? Why would Germany want a Jew to be part of the German National Team? These questions form the basis of The [...]

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