Mark Slavin
Mark Slavin (born January 31, 1954 in Minsk , † September 6, 1972 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a wrestler and member of the Israeli Olympic wrestling team at the 1972 Summer Olympics . He was one of eleven athletes and coaches who were taken hostage and murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich Olympic attack .
Slavin won the Soviet wrestling championships before emigrating to Israel in May 1972. There he became a member of the Hapoel Tel Aviv team .
On September 5, 1972 , Palestinian terrorists broke into the quarters of the Israeli team and killed the trainer Moshe Weinberg and the weightlifter Josef Romano . Slavin was taken hostage with eight of his teammates.
After 20 hours of negotiations, the hostages and hostages were flown to Fürstenfeldbruck by helicopter. There should be a plane ready to fly the terrorists to Egypt. Instead, the Bavarian border police and the Munich police undertook a poorly prepared and chaotic attempt to rescue the hostages. During a two-hour bombardment, Slavin and three of his teammates died in the helicopter and were then burned by the detonation of a terrorist grenade. Shortly afterwards, five more hostages were shot dead by the terrorists. Five terrorists and a Munich police officer were also killed in the exchange of fire.
Mark Slavin was buried with four of his teammates in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv , Israel.
See also
Web links
- Entry to Mark Slavin on the side Munich11.org (English) ( Memento of 29 June 2012 at the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slavin, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | מרק סלבין (Hebrew); Славин, Марк Яковлевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-Russian wrestler, member of the Israeli Olympic wrestling team (1972), murder victim of Palestinian terrorists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1972 |
| Place of death | Fürstenfeldbruck |