He did not celebrate any great sporting successes for Eintracht but for football fans, he was nevertheless an outstanding representative.
Salo’s life is one of losing his family in Auschwitz, surviving the holocaust, changing the physical care of football players at Ajax during the golden years of Cruijf and Keizer, and winning a moral battle for the injustice that was done to his parents by the Dutch and German Railways.
Get to know these colour videos of Jewish footballers in 1936 and 1944. Incredible primary sources of football in tragic times.
Derby County historian Andy Ellis shares how football and history and heritage come together in his work.
A review of educational material which covers exclusion, persecution and annihilation through real-life examples from the past
Today in 1944 football was played in the concentration camp Tezerin. What does this propaganda footage tell us about the Holocaust?
Interview with researcher Bas Kortholt of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre on football’s unique potential.
Today, 27 January, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Educators can use the life stories of footballers to explore this painful past with the students.
Analyse and connect historical sources to learn about Italian fascism and the history of Europe in late 1930s - early 1940s.
Dutch football referee Leo Horn, born in 1916, was a resistance fighter during the Second World War, all the while hiding his Jewish identity.
Over 100 life stories have been collected. Together they present a story of the people of Europe in the last 150 years. Time to connect the dots.
