František Getreuer (18 December 1906 – 6 February 1945) was a Czech national champion swimmer and Olympic

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"The Contribution to the History of the Jewish Sports in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1918–1939"
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Biography

Getreuer competed in the men's tournament at the

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, coming in 9th with the Czechoslovak water polo team. He won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle in the Third Slavic Swimming Championship in

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, in 1929. In the 1930 Czechoslovak Championship held, Getreuer won gold medals in the 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 1,500m freestyle, and 4x200-meter freestyle relay. At the

1935 Maccabiah Games The 2nd Maccabiah ( he, המכביה השנייה), aka the Aliyah Olympics, which was held in April 1935, was the second edition of the Maccabiah Games. The Games were held despite official opposition by the British Mandatory government. A total ...

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, Getreuer won gold medals in the 400m freestyle and the 1,500m freestyle, as well as a team gold meal in water polo.דאר היום⁩, 17 מאי 1935⁩ — ןן הישגי ה"מכביה" השניה ⁨כתבה⁩
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, and was deported to

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on 12 April 1941. He was later transported from Terezín to Auschwitz concentration camp on 28 September 1944. He was murdered on 6 February 1945, at 38 years of age, in

, in

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, Germany.

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