Kehat Shorr

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Kehat Shorr (born February 21, 1919 in Romania , † September 6, 1972 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was the trainer of the Israeli sport shooters who took part in the 1972 Olympic Games . He was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich Olympic attack .

Career

Shorr grew up in Romania and took an early interest in shooting sports. During the Second World War he fought against the National Socialists, who carried out massacres of the country's Jews. In 1963 Shorr moved with his wife and a daughter to Israel , where he joined the Hapoel Tel Aviv club. As a club and later also national coach, he trained numerous marksmen.

Burial site in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv; Israel. (second grave from the right)

Two of his protégés, Zelig Shtroch and Henry Herskowitz, drove him to the games in Munich . In the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists from the Black September organization broke into the quarters of the Israeli team and killed the trainer Moshe Weinberg and the weightlifter Josef Romano . While Shtroch and Herskowitz managed to get to safety, the terrorists took Shorr and eight other participants from the Israeli Olympic team hostage. In the course of a short conversation recorded by TV cameras between trainer André Spitzer , who was threatened with a rifle, and the then German Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Kehat Shorr was shadowy next to Spitzer at the window of the residential complex. A few hours later, Shorr died in a chaotic attempt at rescue at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield . One of the terrorists threw a hand grenade into the fully fueled helicopter in which Shorr and four other hostages were.

Kehat Shorr was buried with four other athletes in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv , Israel.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kehat Shorr, Shooting Coach ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The 1972 Israeli Olympic Athletes Tribute (accessed December 16, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / munich11.com
  2. ↑ Simon Reeve, One day in September, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Simon Reeve, One day in September, pp. 3-9.
  4. ↑ Simon Reeve, One day in September, p. 82.
  5. ↑ Simon Reeve, One day in September, pp. 105-124.

literature

  • Simon Reeve, One day in September. The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli revenge operation "Wrath of God" . Arcade, New York 2000. ISBN 1-55970-547-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Shorr, Kehat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli marksman, coach of the Israeli marksmen at the 1972 Summer Olympics, murder victim of Palestinian terrorists
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Romania
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1972
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck