Alfred Nakache, the Auschwitz swimmer Exhibition in Montpellier

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

The exhibition retraces the exceptional career of this French swimming champion. 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 found the strength to return to the highest level and participated in the Olympic Games in London in 1948.