St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In Helene Mayer, a Jewish athlete who competed for Germany in 1936, an Olympic mystery remains

LONDON – Hiding in plain sight beside a row of London 2012 shuttle buses stands a small metal frame holding the mystery of a past Olympics. Attached to the frame is a photograph. It is an old photograph, snapped on an August afternoon during the 1936 ...
Jewish Journal

Germany restores 1936 athletic record to Jewish woman

Germany restored the 1936 high jump record to a Jewish woman. Gretel Bergmann was kicked off the German 1936 Olympic track and field team, which she joined in 1934, because she was Jewish, despite matching the high-jump record of 5 feet, 3 inches.
THE WEEK

Germany restores 1936 high-jump record to Jewish athlete, and more

Germany has restored a national high-jump record from 1936 to 95-year-old Margaret Bergmann Lambert of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., whom the Nazis had disqualified because she was Jewish. Lambert had been a member of Germany’s Olympic team for two years when ...

The Kessler Twins, German entertainment duo, die together by assisted suicide

Alice and Ellen Kessler, German twin sisters whose singing and dancing talents made them famous across Europe in the 1950s and '60s, died by joint assisted suicide on Monday, according to the German S

Kessler Twins who performed with Frank Sinatra choose to die on same day

Known as the Kessler twins, the sisters rose to international stardom in the 1950s and performed alongside giants of their era, including Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, and Sammy Davis Jr. According to the German publication Bild,
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