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	'''Attila Petschauer''' (December ~~14,~~ 1904 – January ~~20,~~ 1943) was a ] Hungarian ] ].		'''Attila Petschauer''' (14 December 1904 – 30 January 1943) was a Hungarian ] champion sabre ] of ] heritage.<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+petschauer&pg=PA32 \|title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics - With a ... \|author=Paul Taylor \|year=2004 \|publisher=Sussex Academic Press \|isbn=9781903900888 \|access-date=January 23, 2013}}</ref>

	==Fencing career==		==Fencing career==

			Petschauer was born in ], and was Jewish.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
	Born in ], Petschauer was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics. Petschauer was regarded throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s as one of the world's top fencers.

			He fenced first at a salle in Budapest opened in 1885 by Jewish maestro Károly Fodor (Mózes Freyberger) from the age of 8 to the age of 20, and then trained at Nemzeti Vivó Club (NVC) which was established by the ] lawyer Marcell Hajdu.<ref name=autogenerated4></ref> He won four Hungarian National Youth Championships.<ref name=autogenerated4 />
	A fencing prodigy prior to reaching his teens, Petschauer was dubbed “the new ]" by his mentor.

			He was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics. Petschauer was regarded throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s as one of the world's top fencers.<ref name=autogenerated1></ref><ref></ref> Between 1925 and 1931, at the saber world championships he was three times a silver medalist and three times a bronze medalist.<ref></ref>
	===European Championships===

	In 1923, barely 19 years old, he earned the Individual Sabre ] at the European Championships.

	In years that followed, he won the "Heroes Memorial Tournament"<ref>{{cite book\|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=Attila+Petschauer&source=bl&ots=Yk_XqDdJRa&sig=tbuwoHdrfD-LCUqjd64bfVniiYo&hl=en&ei=tCwaSvnmLuOMtgf4scDuDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=18 \|title=The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heros ... – Google Books \|publisher=Books.google.com \|date= \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> and earned Individual Euro ]s in 1925 and 1929, and bronze medals in 1927 and 1930. At the European Championships of 1930 and 1931, Petschauer’s Hungary Sabre team won ]s.

	===Olympic career===		===Olympic career===
			In ] at the age of 23 he was part of the ]-winning Hungarian team in ], winning all 20 of his competition matches. In the individual sabre competition, Petschauer won the ].<ref name="Jews In Sports">{{cite web\|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=75\|title=Petschauer, Attila\|publisher=Jews In Sports\|access-date=11 March 2016}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated4 />

			In the ] in Los Angeles, Petschauer was again part of the champion Hungarian sabre team.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> The Hungarians won the gold medal in team sabre, and Petschauer finished 5th in individual sabre.<ref name="Jews In Sports"/>
	In ] he was part of the ]-winning Hungarian team in ], winning all 20 of his competition matches. Among his teammates were ] and ], who are also members of the ]. In the individual sabre competition, Petschauer won the ]. In the final round, he tied for first with fellow Hungarian Odon Tersztyanssky (they both won 9 of 11 bouts in the finals), but lost the fence-off for the gold, 5–2.

			==Murder==
	In the ] in Los Angeles, Petschauer was again part of the champion Hungarian sabre team. The Hungarians easily won the gold medal; in the finals, they defeated the United States, Italy, and Poland by a combined 31–6. But though he reached the finals he finished 5th in the individual event. He actually tied 3 other fencers with 5 victories, but fellow Hungarian ], also a member of the ], was awarded the bronze because he received fewer touches in the finals. This was the only time in his Olympic career that Petschauer did not medal in an event he had entered.
			Petschauer was ] in 1943 and sent to a ] in ], ].<ref></ref><ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2></ref><ref name="WWII">{{cite web \|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=17 April 2020 \|title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War \|access-date=24 July 2018 \|work=Sports Reference}}</ref>

			Some claimed that Petschauer was tortured and murdered under orders of a Hungarian officer, a fellow former Hungarian Olympian named ], during his service in a Hungarian-Jewish ].<ref name="Auto4U-6"/><ref name=autogenerated2 /> A fellow inmate, Olympic champion wrestler ], recalled: “The guards shouted: ‘You, Olympic fencing medal winner . . . let’s see how you can climb trees.’ It was midwinter and bitter cold, but they ordered him to undress, then climb a tree. The amused guards ordered him to crow like a rooster, and sprayed him with water. Frozen from the water, he died shortly after.”<ref name="NYJW">{{cite news\|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/attila%E2%80%99s_memory\|title=In Attila's Memory\|last=Lipman\|first=Steve\|date=August 8, 2008\|publisher=New York Jewish Week\|access-date=April 17, 2009\|archive-date=June 16, 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616150024/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/attila%E2%80%99s_memory\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref name=autogenerated3></ref><ref></ref>
	==Concentration camp and death==

			A fictionalized account of his life and death were dramatised in the 1999 film '']'', starring ].<ref name="Jews In Sports"/><ref></ref>
	The German occupation of Hungary at the outset of ] resulted in the deportation of most Jews to ]s. But Petschauer’s reputation as a celebrated sportsman accorded him a special “document of exemption”. Nonetheless, during a routine check of identification while he was out walking, Petschauer found he had left some of his “papers” at home – an unacceptable explanation to his ] inquisitor.

			Recent research by historians Csaba B. Stenge and Krisztián Ungváry show that according to the records of the Hungarian Royal Army, Petschauer died of typhus in a Soviet POW camp.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/35429986/Olimpiai_%C3%A9remszerz%C5%91k_trag%C3%A9di%C3%A1ja_a_Donn%C3%A1l_Petschauer_Attila_%C3%A9s_Sz%C3%A9kely_Andr%C3%A1s_mint_zsid%C3%B3_munkaszolg%C3%A1latosok_a_magyar_2._hadseregn%C3%A9l_Tragedy_of_Olympic_Medalists_at_the_River_Don_Attila_Petschauer_and_Zolt%C3%A1n_Sz%C3%A9kely_as_Jewish_Labour_Workers_at_the_Hungarian_2nd_Army_Seregszemle_2016_1.pp.108-114_ and https://index.hu/velemeny/olvir/2013/01/23/a_munkaszolgalat_embertelen_de_tulzo_mozgo_vesztohelynek_nevezni/</ref>
	Shortly thereafter, he was deported to a ] in the ] town of Davidovka in 1943. During a line-up of prisoners, Petschauer was recognized by a military officer, ] Kálmán Cseh von Szent-Katolna, who had been an ] competitor for Hungary in the 1928 Olympics. The two had once been friends, but Cseh exhorted camp guards to taunt his onetime comrade and "Make things hot for the Jew".<ref>{{cite book\|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=Attila+Petschauer&source=bl&ots=3883GuiD20&sig=WKDSVIq5SZW7Y3Sd2lDltJyWuCk&hl=en&ei=tCwaSvnmLuOMtgf4scDuDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=12#PPA80,M1 \|title=Jewish sports legends: the ... – Google Books \|publisher=Books.google.com \|date= \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref>

	Petschauer's death was brutal. Olympic champion ] ] was a fellow inmate, and witnessed Petschauer's death. He recalled: “The guards shouted: ‘You, Olympic fencing medal winner . . . let’s see how you can climb trees.’ It was midwinter and bitter cold, but they ordered him to undress, then climb a tree. The amused guards ordered him to crow like a rooster, and sprayed him with water. Frozen from the water, he died shortly after.”<ref name="NYJW">{{cite news\|title=In Attila's Memory\|last=Lipman\|first=Steve\|date=August 8, 2008\|publisher=New York Jewish Week\|accessdate=April 17, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{dead link\|date=April 2010}}</ref>

	==Movie==

	Petschauer's life and death were dramatised in the 1999 film '']'', starring ]. Though the film was fiction, it incorporated real stories into the plot, and one of the three lead roles was largely based on Petschauer.

	==Hall of Fame==		==Hall of Fame==
		⚫	He was inducted into the ] in 1985.<ref name="Auto4U-6">{{cite web\|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AttilaPetschauer.htm \|title=Attila Petschauer \|publisher=Jewishsports.net \|access-date=April 20, 2010}}</ref>

			==Memorial event==
⚫	He was inducted into the ] in 1985.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AttilaPetschauer.htm \|title=Attila Petschauer \|publisher=Jewishsports.net \|date~~= \|accessdate~~=April 20, 2010}}</ref>
			The Attila Petschauer Event was begun in 1995 as a memorial to Petschauer by his relative, Dr. Richard Markowitz.<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref>{{Cite web
			\| title = In Attila's Memory - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
			\| author =
			\| work = Jewish Telegraphic Agency
			\| date = 8 August 2008
			\| access-date = 6 July 2022
			\| url = https://www.jta.org/2008/08/08/ny/in-attilas-memory-2
		⚫	}}</ref> It is known across the United States as one of the top sabre events.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.fencingcenterli.com/annualEvents.html \|title=fencingcenterli.com \|publisher=fencingcenterli.com \|access-date=April 20, 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825000515/http://www.fencingcenterli.com/annualEvents.html \|archive-date=2006-08-25 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	==~~Memorial~~ ~~Event~~==		==See also==
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⚫	~~The Attila Petschauer Event was begun in 1994 as a memorial to Petschauer by his descendant, Dr. Richard Markowitz.~~ It is known across the United States as one of the top sabre events.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.fencingcenterli.com/annualEvents.html \|title=fencingcenterli.com \|publisher=fencingcenterli.com \|date~~= \|accessdate~~=April 20, 2010}}</ref>

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Latest revision as of 07:00, 4 December 2024

Hungarian fencer (1904–1943) The native form of this personal name is Petschauer Attila. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Attila Petschauer

Personal information

National team

Hungary

Born

14 December 1904
Budapest, Austria-Hungary

Died

30 January 1943(1943-01-30) (aged 38)
Davidovka, Reichskommissariat Ukraine

Sport

fencing

Event

sabre

Medal record

Representing Hungary

Men's Fencing
Olympic Games
	1928 Amsterdam	Team sabre
	1932 Los Angeles	Team sabre
	1928 Amsterdam	Individual sabre

Attila Petschauer (14 December 1904 – 30 January 1943) was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer of Jewish heritage.

Fencing career

Petschauer was born in Budapest, and was Jewish.

He fenced first at a salle in Budapest opened in 1885 by Jewish maestro Károly Fodor (Mózes Freyberger) from the age of 8 to the age of 20, and then trained at Nemzeti Vivó Club (NVC) which was established by the Zionist lawyer Marcell Hajdu. He won four Hungarian National Youth Championships.

He was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics. Petschauer was regarded throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s as one of the world's top fencers. Between 1925 and 1931, at the saber world championships he was three times a silver medalist and three times a bronze medalist.

Olympic career

In Amsterdam in 1928 at the age of 23 he was part of the gold medal-winning Hungarian team in sabre, winning all 20 of his competition matches. In the individual sabre competition, Petschauer won the silver medal.

In the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Petschauer was again part of the champion Hungarian sabre team. The Hungarians won the gold medal in team sabre, and Petschauer finished 5th in individual sabre.

Murder

Petschauer was arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and sent to a forced labor camp in Davidovka, Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

Some claimed that Petschauer was tortured and murdered under orders of a Hungarian officer, a fellow former Hungarian Olympian named Kálmán Cseh, during his service in a Hungarian-Jewish Forced Labor Battalion. A fellow inmate, Olympic champion wrestler Károly Kárpáti, recalled: “The guards shouted: ‘You, Olympic fencing medal winner . . . let’s see how you can climb trees.’ It was midwinter and bitter cold, but they ordered him to undress, then climb a tree. The amused guards ordered him to crow like a rooster, and sprayed him with water. Frozen from the water, he died shortly after.”

A fictionalized account of his life and death were dramatised in the 1999 film Sunshine, starring Ralph Fiennes.

Recent research by historians Csaba B. Stenge and Krisztián Ungváry show that according to the records of the Hungarian Royal Army, Petschauer died of typhus in a Soviet POW camp.

Hall of Fame

He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.

Memorial event

The Attila Petschauer Event was begun in 1995 as a memorial to Petschauer by his relative, Dr. Richard Markowitz. It is known across the United States as one of the top sabre events.

References

"Attila Petschauer Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics - With a ... Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900888. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - Joseph M. Siegman
Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler
Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports - Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver
^ Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics
^ Masquerade: Dancing Around Death in Nazi-occupied Hungary - Tivadar Soros
Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a ... - Paul Taylor
By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers ... - Richard Cohen
^ "Petschauer, Attila". Jews In Sports. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
Not Just a Game - Doug Zipes
^ In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi
"Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
^ "Attila Petschauer". Jewishsports.net. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
Lipman, Steve (August 8, 2008). "In Attila's Memory". New York Jewish Week. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2009.
^ Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust - Agnes Grunwald-Spier
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
London, Europe and the Olympic Games: European Perspectives
https://www.academia.edu/35429986/Olimpiai_%C3%A9remszerz%C5%91k_trag%C3%A9di%C3%A1ja_a_Donn%C3%A1l_Petschauer_Attila_%C3%A9s_Sz%C3%A9kely_Andr%C3%A1s_mint_zsid%C3%B3_munkaszolg%C3%A1latosok_a_magyar_2._hadseregn%C3%A9l_Tragedy_of_Olympic_Medalists_at_the_River_Don_Attila_Petschauer_and_Zolt%C3%A1n_Sz%C3%A9kely_as_Jewish_Labour_Workers_at_the_Hungarian_2nd_Army_Seregszemle_2016_1.pp.108-114_ and https://index.hu/velemeny/olvir/2013/01/23/a_munkaszolgalat_embertelen_de_tulzo_mozgo_vesztohelynek_nevezni/
"In Attila's Memory - Jewish Telegraphic Agency". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 8 August 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
"fencingcenterli.com". fencingcenterli.com. Archived from the original on 2006-08-25. Retrieved April 20, 2010.

External links

v t e Olympic fencing champions in men's Team Sabre
1908: Fuchs, Gerde, Tóth, Werkner, Földes (HUN) 1912: Berti, Földes, Fuchs, Gerde, Mészáros, Schenker, Tóth, Werkner (HUN) 1920: Baldi, Gargano, A. Nadi, N. Nadi, Puliti, Santelli, Urbani (ITA) 1924: Anselmi, Balzarini, Bertinetti, Bini, Cuccia, Moricca, Puliti, Sarrocchi (ITA) 1928: Tersztyánszky, Garay, Petschauer, Rády, Gombos, Glykais (HUN) 1932: Petschauer, Nagy, Glykais, Piller, Gerevich, Kabos (HUN) 1936: Gerevich, Berczelly, Kovács, Kabos, Rajcsányi, Rajczy (HUN) 1948: Gerevich, Berczelly, Kárpáti, Kovács, Rajcsányi, Papp (HUN) 1952: Gerevich, Berczelly, Kárpáti, Kovács, Rajcsányi, Papp (HUN) 1956: Gerevich, Kárpáti, Kovács, Keresztes, Hámori, Magay (HUN) 1960: Gerevich, Kárpáti, Kovács, Horváth, Delneky, Mendelényi (HUN) 1964: Mavlikhanov, Rakita, Rylsky, Melnikov, Asatiani (URS) 1968: Mavlikhanov, Rakita, Sidyak, Nazlymov, Vinokurov (URS) 1972: Maffei, Rigoli, Salvadori, M.A. Montano, M. T. Montano (ITA) 1976: Sidyak, Nazlymov, Krovopuskov, Burtsev, Vinokurov (URS) 1980: Sidyak, Nazlymov, Krovopuskov, Burtsev, Alyokhin (URS) 1984: Marin, Dalla Barba, Scalzo, Meglio, Arcidiacono (ITA) 1988: Nébald, Szabó, Bujdosó, Gedővári, Csongrádi (HUN) 1992: Kiriyenko, Shirshov, Pohosov, Gutzeit, Pozdnyakov (EUN) 1996: Kiriyenko, Sharikov, Pozdnyakov (RUS) 2000: Sharikov, Pozdnyakov, Frosin (RUS) 2004: Pillet, D. Touya, G. Touya (FRA) 2008: Pillet, Sanson, Lopez (FRA) 2012: Gu, Won, Kim, Oh (KOR) 2020: Gu, Kim, Oh, J.Kim (KOR) 2024: Gu, Park, Oh, Do (KOR)

Olympic fencing champions in men's Team Sabre