With almost matter-of-fact understatement, Shaul Ladany declares today: “My life has been a series of lucky escapes.”
First, he survived the Holocaust – freed from the hell of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where 50,000 died from starvation or disease.
Then, back in Germany almost 30 years later, he fled as Palestinian terrorists killed 11 of his Israeli teammates at the 1972 Munich Olympics.