How many israelis were killed in munich

Three Arabs were wounded. The bloodshed brought the suspension of the Olympic Games and there was doubt if they would be resumed. Willi Daume, president of the West German Organizing Committee, announced that he would ask the International Olympic Committee to meet tomorrow to decide whether they should continue.

The bloodbath at the airport, which ended around midnight, came after long hours of negotiation between Germans and Arabs at the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village where the Arabs demanded the release of Arab commandos imprisoned in Israel. From there all were to be flown to Cairo. A Boeing provided by the Lufthansa German Airlines was waiting.

Two of the terrorists, carrying their automatic rifles, walked about yards from the helicopters to the plane. The inclusion of a moment of silence was also welcomed by the March of the Living, an international Holocaust memorial organisation that campaigns against anti-semitism, saying it was "long overdue.

Relatives of those killed had sought for them to be remembered at opening ceremonies but the IOC had previously ignored those requests. Instead of a ceremony commemoration, the IOC in inaugurated the Place of Mourning in a leafy part of the Olympic village at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to remember those who had died during the Olympic Games, also with Romano and Spitzer present. The Place of Mourning featured two stones from ancient Olympia encased in glass and had been described as "closure" at the time by Spitzer.

But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano, widows of Andre Spitzer and Yoseff Romano, who were murdered in the Munich massacre, take part in the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, July 23, , at which a moment of silence was held for Israel's Olympic massacre victims Courtesy.

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