Alfred Nakache, the swimmer of Auschwitz Exhibition in Montpellier

The swimming champion Alfred Nakache, late 1940s. Memorial of the Shoah / coll. Robert Nakache

The exhibition traces the exceptional journey of this champion of French swimming. Excluded from society by the anti-Semitic legislation of the Vichy regime, he was deported to Auschwitz in January 1944. Despite the trials, Alfred Nakache finds the strength to return to the highest level and participates in the Olympic Games in London in 1948.