The Olympic champion pretended to be sick to save the bullet during the Holocaust die as 92-year-old

I was told to stay on the ground and tell the soldiers I'm sick”, she recalls. “Ruther, let's go”, had ordered their superior. Then my father told them:

She's sick, don't you see she can't walk at all? Until the soldier said he wouldn't walk that far. Not much.

Only to the banks of the Danube River, where the other mass killings were being carried out.

And then as if he had talked to someone from heaven, my father said, Please don't take her, she's a swim champion in Hungary and one day you'll be happy you saved her life.

He looked at me and me, and I told him my name. He had a gray eye, another brown eye. That's how I survived when my dad told the soldiers that I was a swimming champion and that he, the superior, will remind me of”. Szekely died last Saturday.

She was 92-year-old. It has broken six world records, won 44 domestic champion titles, a gold medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, in 200m, in frog style and silver in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

With all my successes, I was always defeated at a point”, she wrote. No community had ever fully drawn me, although I felt in my heart and soul that I was part of my community, it always dawned on me that I was a stranger”.

Szekely decided to be swimming in 1936 until she was listening to the radio coverage of the Berlin Olympics.

She heard how Ferenc Csik won the race in 100m freestyle. /Periscope. com/