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Alfred Nakache

Alfred Nakache

1915–1983

Nationality
France
Occupation
swimmer

Artem "Alfred" Nakache (18 November 1915 – 4 August 1983) was a French swimmer and water polo player.

Incarceration history

  1. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  2. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  3. Buchenwald concentration camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

Artem "Alfred" Nakache (18 November 1915 – 4 August 1983) was a French swimmer and water polo player. A member of the French team for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, he also swam in the first post-war Summer Olympics in London in 1948. He, Agnes Keleti, and Ben Helfgott are the only known Jewish athletes to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust.

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