{"id":45118,"date":"2016-08-06T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45118"},"modified":"2016-08-06T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T05:41:57","slug":"06-05-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45118","title":{"rendered":"06-0Olympics-Israeli victims of 1972 Games honored 44 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Ynetnews - news and updates 24 hours\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/images\/CENTRAL_1024_ynet_logo_en.png\" alt=\"Ynetnews - news and updates 24 hours\" width=\"20%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4837148,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics-Israeli victims of 1972 Games honored 44 years on<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After years of refusing requests by 1972 Munich Olympic Israeli athletes&#8217; widows to mark a moment&#8217;s silence for their murdered husbands, IOC inaugurates Place of Mourning for every Olympics and observe moment&#8217;s silence in Rio de Janeiro ; Wife: &#8216;This gives us closure.&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Widows of two of the 11 Israelis killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics got the recognition that they had so long sought with a ceremony and minute&#8217;s silence at the Olympic village in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ankie Spitzer&#8217;s husband Andre, a fencing coach, was killed along with weightlifter Joseph Romano, whose wife Ilana Romano was also at the ceremony led by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ilana Romano, center, and Ankie Spitzer, right, widows of Israeli Olympic athletes killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, attend a memorial in their husbands' honor, ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: AP)\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.ynet.co.il\/PicServer4\/2016\/08\/03\/7177905\/71778800100375640360no.jpg\" alt=\"Ilana Romano, center, and Ankie Spitzer, right, widows of Israeli Olympic athletes killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, attend a memorial in their husbands' honor, ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: AP)\" width=\"85%\" border=\"0\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Ilana Romano, center, and Ankie Spitzer, right, widows of Israeli Olympic athletes killed at the 1972\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Munich Olympics,<br \/>\nattend a memorial in their husbands&#8217; honor,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: AP)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;This is closure for us. This is incredibly important. We waited 44 years to have this remembrance and recognition for our loved ones who were so brutally killed in Munich,&#8221; Spitzer told reporters at the newly established Place of Mourning. &#8220;That they would be really accepted as members of the Olympic family. It is what we wanted because they were members of the Olympic family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"A tree filled with ribbons stands as part of a memorial in honor of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics (Photo: AP)\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.ynet.co.il\/PicServer4\/2016\/08\/03\/7177903\/71778810100188640360no.jpg\" alt=\"A tree filled with ribbons stands as part of a memorial in honor of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics (Photo: AP)\" width=\"85%\" border=\"0\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A tree filled with ribbons stands as part of a memorial in honor of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> at the 1972 Munich Olympics (Photo: AP)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On September 5, 1972, members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage at the poorly secured athletes&#8217; village by Palestinian gunmen from the Black September terror organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Within 24 hours, 11 Israelis, five Palestinians and a German policeman were dead after a standoff and subsequent rescue effort erupted into gunfire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"A memorial in honor of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics stands in the Olympic Village ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: AP)\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.ynet.co.il\/PicServer4\/2016\/08\/03\/7177901\/71778820100893640360no.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial in honor of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics stands in the Olympic Village ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: AP)\" width=\"85%\" border=\"0\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A memorial in honor of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics stands in the<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Olympic Village ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: AP)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">read more: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4837148,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics-Israeli victims of 1972 Games..<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympics-Israeli victims of 1972 Games honored 44 years on Reuters After years of refusing requests by 1972 Munich Olympic Israeli athletes&#8217; 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