Olympians Who Survived Nazi Concentration Camps (31)

Athlete Nation(s) Sport(s) Role(s) Era Notes
Vladimir Aïtoff FRA RGB Olympics 1900 Buchenwald concentration camp
Július Baláž TCH
SVK
DIV/SWM Olympics 1924—1928 Spent time at Auschwitz and also incarcerated at Terezín and Frýdlant
Louis Balsan FRA BOB Olympics 1932—1936 Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Félix Bonnat FRA BOB Olympics 1948 Dachau concentration camp
Herbert Brück AUT IHO Olympics 1928 Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Thomas Buergenthal USA Other 2015 Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
Pierre Claret FRA IHO Olympics 1936 Buchenwald concentration camp
Kurt Epstein CZE
TCH
WPO Olympics 1928—1936 Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps and labor camp Frýdlant v Čechách
Éva Földes HUN ART Olympics 1948 Ravensburg, Flossenbürg and Mauthausen concentration camps
Émile Frantz LUX WRE Olympics 1928 Natzweiler-Struthof and Dachau concentration camps
Franz Heckendorf GER ART Olympics 1928 Waldshut and Mauthausen concentration camps
Ben Helfgott GBR WLF Olympics 1956—1960 Different labor camps and at last Theresienstadt concentration camp
Guillaume Hoorickx BEL IHO Olympics 1928 Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Emil Hübscher AUT ATH Olympics 1936 Dachau concentration camp
Max Ippen CZE
TCH
BOB Olympics 1948 Dachau concentration camp
Keld Karise DEN ROW Olympics 1936 Buchenwald concentration camp
Károly Kárpáti HUN WRE Olympics 1928—1936 Labor camp Zavidovo
Jan Koller CZE
TCH
SHO Olympics 1936 Buchenwald concentration camp
Shaul Ladany ISR ATH Olympics 1968—1972 Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Tadeusz Łakomski POL ART Non-Medal 1952 Salaspils concentration camp and Stutthof concentration camp
Roger Lebranchu FRA ROW Olympics 1948 Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps
Piet Mollin BEL WRE Olympics 1928 Buchenwald concentration camp
Artem Nakache FRA SWM Olympics 1936—1948 Auschwitz work camp
Johannes Osten NED FEN 1906 1906 Lüttringhausen concentration camp
Otto Peltzer GER ATH Olympics 1928—1932 Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Willy Røgeberg NOR SHO Olympics 1924—1948 Grini fangeleir
Asbjørn Ruud NOR SJP Olympics 1948 Grini fangeleir
Birger Ruud NOR ALP/SJP Olympics / Other 1932—1948 Grini fangeleir
Sigmund Ruud NOR ALP/SJP Olympics 1928—1936 Grini fangeleir
Arne Serck-Hanssen NOR ROW Olympics 1948 Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Ivan Udodov RUS
URS
WLF Olympics 1952 Buchenwald concentration camp