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Ágnes Keleti (née Klein; born 9 January 1921) is a Hungarian retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach. She is the oldest living Olympic champion and medallist, reaching her 100th birthday on 9 January 2021.
Some of her family members, including her father, were among the 550,000 Hungarian Jews killed at Auschwitz and other camps. After surviving the Holocaust, Keleti began competing in gymnastics...
In 1944, when the Germans invaded Hungary, gymnast Agnes Keleti bought fake identification papers and carried the bodies of the dead to mass graves during the battle of Budapest.
Oldest living Olympic champion, a Holocaust survivor, turns 100. Budapest resident Agnes Keleti, a winner of the Israel Prize, took home 10 medals in gymnastics – including 5 golds – at the ...
For Agnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic champion, the fondest memory of her remarkable 100 years is simply that she has lived through it all. Agnes Keleti survived Holocaust, won 10 Olympic...
The Holocaust survivor and winner of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics — including five golds — celebrates her 100th birthday on Saturday in her native Budapest, punctuating a life of achievement,...
Keleti, Ágnes (1921—) Jewish-Hungarian gymnast who won four gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics at age 35. Name variations: Agnes Keleti. Born in Budapest, Hungary, on January 9, 1921; father perished in the Holocaust; married; two children (b. 1963 and 1965).
With the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris underway, the Claims Conference would like to take a moment to honor two remarkable Holocaust survivors who competed in the Olympic games. Just shy of her 100 birthday, we met with Ágnes Keleti at her home in Budapest.
Keleti survived the war, but many of her family members – including her father – did not. In all, 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed by the Nazi regime. Following the end of the war, a 27-year-old Keleti was set to compete at the London 1948 Games, before a ligament injury ended her chances of participation.
While her mother and sister also survived, her father and uncles perished at Auschwitz and were among the 550,000 Hungarian Jews killed in Nazi death camps, Hungarian forced labor battalions, ghettos or shot to death into the Danube River.