Weightlifting coach and wrestler. Also known as Yakov, he was born in Poland. During WW2 he took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Along with ten other team members, he was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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