Twelve Months – Twelve Names

August: KEHAT SCHOR

The terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich will be commemorated for the 50th time in 2022. In memory of the twelve people killed, institutions from Munich and Fürstenfeldbruck are dedicating each month to one victim, his life and fate.

“Twelve Months—Twelve Names” remembers the Olympic athlete Kehat Schor in August 2022 with an installation by the artists Saba Bussmann and Horst Konietzny on the façade of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. Schor coached the Israeli national shooting team. Born in a small village near Iași in Romania, he survived the Shoah in hiding in the Carpathian Mountains. Schor became a well-known sports marksman in his native country even before his emigration in 1963 to Israel where he took on the job of coach. During the 1972 Munich Olympics, he and other Israeli athletes were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists. An attempt by the German police to forcibly free the prisoners on the airfield in Fürstenfeldbruck failed, and Kehat Schor died from his gunshot wounds. In an interview in 2014, his daughter, Michal Schor, recalled how stressful the situation was for the family which learned of the hostage-taking on the radio and was initially reassured by officials. Quotes from this interview and the portrait of Kehat Schor are part of the installation held at at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and - with the kind support of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau München - also at the Königsplatz underground station and on the wall of the Lenbachhaus on Luisenstraße.

Commemoration Project
Twelve Months – Twelve Names
50 Years Olympic Massacre Munich

To mark the 50^th anniversary of the Summer Olympics in Munich, the Munich Massacre of September 5–6 , 1972 is to be commemorated throughout 2022. Every month one victim will be at the focus of attention. A variety of different actions in public spaces is planned, ranging from installations lasting the entire month to activities on one specific day.

This commemoration project has been conceived and coordinated by the Jewish Museum Munich in conjunction with the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the Consulate General of the State of Israel. 

It will be implemented with cooperation partners including the Amerikahaus Munich, the Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck, the Deutsches Theater, the Police College—Hochschule für den öffentlichen Dienst in Bayern – Fachbereich Polizei, and the Munich Police Headquarters, as well as other cultural and educational institutions and interested parties.

The Jewish Museum Munich is also accompanying the commemoration project on its blog and its social media channels under the hashtag #MunichMassacre72.