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 ...
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 ...
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 ...