On the eve of Remembrance Day, within the project "Communication in Sport" at the Manzoni Schools of Bologna, Sabrina Orlando e Michele Forino they invited as a guest Charles Caliceti, Head of the Bologna FC1909 Communication Area, than before revealing to students the secrets of their profession, told a unique and very important story, that of the Hungarian football manager Arpad Weisz, Holocaust victim with his family.
Revolutionary coach, he triumphed in Italy with Inter and Bologna, to then have to leave our city suddenly together with his wife Elena and their children Roberto and Clara to escape the increasingly oppressive racial laws, seeking refuge first in Paris and then in Holland, where, however, they were arrested and deported. His wife and children were killed in a gas chamber as soon as they arrived in Auschwitz, while he endured two years of hard labor, finally dying, the 31 January 1944.
For decades, his sudden disappearance from Bologna, beyond a terse press release from the Company announcing his exemption, and above all his fate and that of his family remained shrouded in mystery. Nobody heard anything more about him, until in 2019 the journalist Matteo Marani has carried out an in-depth historical research, managing to trace his sad story and telling it in the book From the Scudetto to Auschwitz, the story of Arpad Weisz, Jewish coach.
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