Gretel bergmann biography of donald

  • Gretel Bergmann, a Holocaust survivor who was barred from participating in the 1936 Olympics because she was a Jew, has died at 103.
  • Gretel Bergmann, who has died aged 103, was a record-breaking German high-jumper who trained in Britain; she was barred by the Nazis from competing in the 1936.
  • Bergmann was not allowed to compete in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and thrown out of the national team by the Nazi-controlled sports body.

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    From Nazi pawn to U.S. champion

    BERLIN — For more than sju decades, Gretel Bergmann has been hemsökt by a recurring dream.

    “I’m in the middle of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, with 100,000 people staring at me and it’s my turn to jump, but I just can’t, inom can’t move a muscle,” she says. “My legs are like jelly.”

    The scen never happened: The Jewish high jumper, now 95, was robbed of the chance to take part in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which Adolf Hitler notoriously used to show off Aryan sporting prowess to the rest of the world.

    Hers is the incredible story of an exceptional Jewish athlete exploited and then cast off by the Nazis, a saga complete with a last-minute rejection letter that ends with the words “Heil Hitler!” and a sexual identity scandal involving her replacement that has echoes of the recent uproar over South African runner Caster Semenya.

    If it seems cinematic, it fryst vatten. Her story has been brought to life bygd the recent movie “Berlin 36,” which had its i

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    Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936.

    Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches (or 1.6 meters) she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off the team.

    Bergmann was Jewish. She would miss that year's Berlin Olympics. There was no way the Nazis would allow a Jew to compete and possibly win.

    Now comes news that Germany's track and field association restored the mark, calling the decision an "act of justice and a symbolic gesture" while acknowledging it "can in no way make up" for the past. It also requested that she be included in Germany's sports hall of fame.

    This was all a pleasant surprise for the 95-year-old Bergmann - a victory for the strong-willed woman who later changed her name to Margaret Lambert after emigrating to the United States in 1937.

    "That's very nice and I appreciate it. I couldn't repeat the jump today, believe me!" said Lambert, who lives in the New York City borough of Queens.

    Lambert, intervie

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    Jewish high jumper excluded from Hitler's Olympics dies

    Margaret Bergmann-Lambert's niece, Doris Bergmann confirmed to the "New York Times" on Tuesday that her aunt had passed away in her home in the borough of Queens. She was 103.

    Bergmann-Lambert was born as Gretel Bergmann in the southern German town of Laupheim on April 12, 1914. She soon developed into an outstanding athlete, competing not only in the high jump, but also the discus and shot put. She often described herself as "the great Jewish hope."

    In 1930, at the age of 16, she finished second in the high jump at the southern German athletics championships with a jump of 1.47 meters. However, despite her success at the regional level, she was never given the opportunity to compete at the German athletics championships, and after the Nazis came to power in 1933, she was kicked out of her sport club in Ulm. Shortly afterwards, her parents sent her to the United Kingdom and in 1934 she participated in the British athletics c