Agi Keleti
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Date
1949
Description
Ágnes (Agi) Keleti at a gymnastics competition located at the National Sports Hall (later Gerevich Aladár National Sports Hall) in Budapest. During the Second World War, Keleti was expelled from her gymnastics club for being a Jew and went into hiding using false identification papers. After the war, Keleti went on to earn 10 medals at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
Postwar United States
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, Women, World War II
Repository
Identifier
33060
Source
Fortepan, courtesy of Martin Kovacs
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