Munich Massacre
Portraits of the victims are displayed at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary the Munich Olympics attack, on September 5, 2022. Photo: Thomas Kienzle / AFP
May 1, 2023, 6:57 am
Germany sets up Munich Olympics panel of historians
Some Israeli athletes managed to escape but nine were seized. The captors demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinians held by Israel and two German left-wing extremists
Munich memorial at Moriah College. Photo: Supplied.
September 12, 2022, 5:17 pm
Moriah’s moving ceremony
Moriah College has a beautiful memorial surrounded by 11 trees – one planted for each athlete who died at the Munich massacre.
By AJN STAFF
Portraits of the victims are displayed at the end of a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Photo: Thomas Kienzle/AFP
September 8, 2022, 9:04 am
Germany asks forgiveness from bereaved relatives
'I ask your forgiveness for the inadequate protection afforded to the Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich and the woeful investigation afterward. That it was possible for what happened to happen.'
Israeli Olympic race walker Shaul Ladany poses for a photo at the entrance of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Photo: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
September 5, 2022, 10:50 am
Survivor of Holocaust and Munich Olympic attack visits Germany for memorial event
Shaul Ladany was able to escape before Palestinian terror group captured him in 1972 massacre; shows family where he was previously held at Bergen-Belsen camp.
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
One of the defining images of the Munich Olympics in 1972: a member of the group that had taken the Israelis hostage seen on the apartment balcony in a face mask. Photo: Russell Mcphedran/The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media via Getty Images
September 5, 2022, 10:41 am
50 years since Munich
How the 1972 Munich Massacre unfolded, through the eyes of US athletes in the Olympic village.
By Jon Marks
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