Isakas Anolikas

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Isakas Anolikas

Isakas Anolikas ( 1903 in Šiauliai - 1943 in IX fortas , Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian cyclist . He represented Lithuania at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He was the first Lithuanian athlete to take part in the Olympic Games twice in a row. Anolikas was murdered by the Nazi regime for racist reasons.

Career

Anolikas was a three-time Lithuanian national champion and a two-time Olympic participant in the interwar period .

In 1924 he was a member of the first Lithuanian Olympic delegation. The participants were selected on the 115 km long route from Kaunas to Marijampolė and back. 17 drivers took part in this race. Isakas Anolikas was a member of the sports club "Makabi Šiauliai" (from 1921) and the representative of the national association of the international Jewish sports association Makkabi , his most important competitor Juozas Vilpišauskas competed for the Lithuanian Cyclists Association. Anolikas's bicycle saddle broke 26 kilometers from the finish. Vilpišauskas, however, was wrong about the rest periods. Because the strongest drivers in Lithuania did not make it to the finish line in time, another qualifying race was held, as a result of which both applicants - together with a soccer team - were sent to the Summer Olympics in Paris .

Because Anolikas had to spend all his money in Paris on a new bike, he went to the Olympic race without spare parts and without food. Anolikas did not make it to the finish line at both of the Olympics due to technical defects in his bike. Stones had bored into the bicycle tire and he was unable to borrow another bicycle from a rival.

During the German occupation of Lithuania, tens of thousands of Jewish people from all over Europe were murdered in the IX fortas in Kaunas , including Isakas Anolikas in 1943. Most of them were shot.

The Lithuanian writer Rūta Vanagaitė portrayed with support from Efraim Zuroff in her book Musiskiai ( Ours ) on the participation of Lithuanian civilians in the murder of Jews in the country both Lithuanian victims and perpetrators Lithuanian. Photos of Isakas Anolikas and the commandant of the camp, Balys Norvaisa, were deliberately placed side by side on the cover of the book.

successes

1925
  • LithuaniaLithuania Lithuanian champion - individual, 10 km
1926
  • LithuaniaLithuania Lithuanian champion - individual, 10 km
  • LithuaniaLithuania Lithuanian champions - team, 70 km

Commemoration

  • On August 28, 2016, the artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in Kaunas, where Anolikas was training for the 1924 Summer Olympics . The stumbling block is on the corner of Laisvės al. 3 / Krėvos in Kaunas.
  • On May 6, 2018, a bicycle tour will take place in Šiauliai in memory of the members of the Lithuanian Olympic team Isakas Anolikas and Juozas Vilpišauskas . This memorial event is organized by the Šiauliai municipality in cooperation with the Jewish community.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Daumantė Baranauskaitė: `` Nepriklausomos Lietuvos debiutas olimpinėse žaidynėse: Isako Anoliko istorija (The story of Isakas Anolikas) '', August 10, 2016 (with a portrait of the athlete) (Lithuanian)
  2. ↑ Steponas Gečas, Arvydas Jakštas: Lietuvos žydų (litvakų) dalyvavimą lietuvos sportiniame sąjūdyje The Participation of Lithuanian Jews in the Lithuanian Sports Movement (Lithuanian), Bernardinai.lt Internet portal, June 18, 2012 (with photos), accessed on May 3, 2018
  3. ↑ Steponas Gečas, Arvydas Jakštas: Lietuvos žydų (litvakų) dalyvavimą lietuvos sportiniame sąjūdyje ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) The participation of Lithuanian Jews in the Lithuanian sports movement (Lithuanian) (Word document), accessed on May 1, 2018
  4. ↑ a b Judith Leister: What ours did NZZ May 21, 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018
  5. ↑ Kaunas IX. Fort on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945 , accessed on May 1, 2018
  6. ↑ Rūta Vanagaitė: Mūsiškiai . Alma littera, Vilnius 2016, ISBN 978-609-01-2208-2 .
  7. ↑ Hillel Kuttler: 80 Years After Hitler's Berlin Summer Olympics: Athletes Murdered In The Holocaust Are Not Forgotten (International march of living) (June 22, 2016)
  8. ↑ Hillel Kuttler: 80 Years After Hitler's Berlin Summer Olympics: Athletes Murdered In The Holocaust Are Not Forgotten (B'nai B'rith Magazine) (June 22, 2016)
  9. ^ Simon Wiesenthal Center: Mūsiškiai; Kelionė Su Priešu (Our People; Journey With an Enemy) by Ruta Vanagaite and Dr. Efraim Zuroff (accessed May 3, 2018)
  10. ↑ Kaunas joins the largest European area monument (Kaunas prisijungia prie didžiausio Europos memorialo po atviru dangumi) (Lithuanian) (information on laying the stumbling blocks in Kaunas) , accessed on May 2, 2018
  11. ↑ Sportas.info: Memory of a murdered Olympian - the cyclist Isakas Anolikas, who represented Lithuania at two Olympic Games, will be honored where he has prepared for the most important starts. (Įamžino nužudyto olimpiečio atminimą) (Lithuanian) (August 30, 2016)
  12. ↑ Memorial event for the members of the Lithuanian Olympic team during the interwar period Isakas Anolikas and Juozas Vilpišauskas , accessed on May 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Anolikas, Isakas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian racing cyclist, murdered by the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Šiauliai
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death IX fortas , Kaunas