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From Genocide to Football Glory

Béla Guttmann was the first superstar football coach, achieving great success in Europe and South America before Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho were even born. He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, he hid in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the vicinity were being deported to Auschwitz. He then escaped from a brutal slave labour camp. His father, sister and wider family perished at the hands of the Nazis. But by the early 1960s, Guttmann had completed the most remarkab
6:30pm - 8pm

Free admission. Prior registration via The Wiener Library website is essential.
The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Thu 16 Nov 2017
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