Helfgott

Ben Helfgott, a Polish Jew who, after being liberated from Nazi imprisonment in 1945 weighing a skeletal 80 pounds, became an Olympic weight lifter for Britain, his adopted country, and who later dedicated himself to a public life of…

LONDON: Ben Helfgott, one of Britain's best known Holocaust survivors who represented the country twice as an Olympic weightlifter, died on Friday (Jun 16) aged 93. The Holocaust Educational Trust, one of the education charities with which…