Fencing master and coach. Born in Timișoara, Romania. In 1956 he moved to Israel where he served in the air force and attended the National Sport Academy, where he studied fencing. Representing Israel in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he was murdered along with ten other team mates by Palestinian terrorists.
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Andre Spitzer
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Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.
This bust is fixed to the wall of the building in the garden seen in the picture.
Ralph Downes CBE, 1904 - 1993, organist and organ designer, lived here 1945 - 1993. Ealing Civic Society Ealing Council
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