Maccabi games in Berlin

It has been called the triumph over evil. 70 years after the Holocaust, a record 2300 Jewish athletes from Israel and all over the world gathered for the Maccabi Games, known as the ‘Jewish Olympics’ in Berlin, at the site where Hitler opened the 1936 ‘Nazi Games’, which barred Jewish participants.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/maccabi-games-open-in-berlin-in-triumph-over-evil/

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