07.08.2012                      19.Aw. 5772

Stilles Gedenken:

Big-wigs attend event in memory of Munich 11

Ceremony features lighting of candles in memory of the 11 Israeli coaches, athletes murdered at the Games in Germany 40 years ago.

After having all its appeals to hold a minute’s silence at the opening ceremony rejected, the Olympic Committee of Israel, the Jewish Committee for the London Games and the Embassy of Israel held the official memorial ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the tragic murder of 11 Israelis on Monday night….