The German Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann, who died on July 25 at the age of 103, proved that for some Holocaust survivors, there were limits to postwar reconciliation. Barred as a Jew from ...

As told in the German feature film “Berlin 36,” opening in New York September 16 and Los Angeles September 23, Gretel Bergmann, Germany’s greatest female high jumper at the time of the 1936 Berlin ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked ...

Margaret Lambert celebrated her 101st birthday on April 12 in Jamaica Estates, Queens. One of the many guests at her party was Dagmar Freitag, a member of Germany's parliament. Quite a change from ...

At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann was replaced by the Nazi regime with an athlete later discovered to be a man. Based on a true story, the film holds that Gretel and her ...

The German film “Berlin 36,” set against the Nazi-organized Olympic Games of 1936, has much going for it. There is the pageantry and excitement of the Games, caught in old newsreels, with the Fuehrer ...

Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches (or 1.6 meters) she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked ...

Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 1.60-meters (5 feet, 3 inches) she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off ...