The Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis and founded the Paralympics

What a great idea to give disabled people an opportunity to compete like non-disabled people! This is very inspiring to see what disabled people are capable of doing!

I am not at all surprised that a Jewish man founded the games. Yiddish: Ein Mensch sein!

"... That evening [Kristallnacht], 64 people came to the [Breslau Jewish Hospital] seeking refuge from the pogrom and the Gestapo. Guttmann admitted them all. The next morning he was called down to the hospital by the SS.

“I went to the hospital and there were three SS officers sitting there,” Guttmann recounted. “‘Sixty-four people were admitted. How can you explain this?’ I discussed every case, and of course I invented all kinds of diagnoses, you see. Out of the 64 people, I saved 60.” ..."

The Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis and founded the Paralympics - The Jerusalem Post Unlike the Olympic Games, the Paralympics have an inspiring Jewish origin story — thanks to its founder, Ludwig Guttmann.