Bill Engel at Maccabi Games (Prague)

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio: Prague hosted the first ever European Maccabi Games in 1929, followed by Antwerp a year later. After a thirty-year hiatus, the Jewish games finally returned to European soil, as Copenhagen hosted the 1959 competition. The choice of the Austrian capital as the host city of 2011 was highly symbolic, as it was the first time since the Second World War that Jewish athletes from all over Europe competed on the territory of the former German Reich.

Scope and Content: This item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of Bill Engel, a sprinter from Oshawa, Ontario, at the Maccabi Games in Prague. Engel is pictured in the back row on the far left with four other men. The group are all wearing track and field clothing.

Repro Restriction: Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.