Ze'ev Friedman (1944 - September 6, 1972) was an Israeli weightlifter and victim of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. He was born in Poland and moved to Israel in 1960. He and his family were survivors of the Holocaust. He started his sports career as a gymnast. After a while of being a gymnast he decided that he liked lifting weights better. In 1972 he was at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, (Germany) as a weightlifter. The Palestinian Black September group came and kidnapped several Israeli athletes including him. Then, after protracted negotiations, they brought them to an airport and killed them during a rescue attempt. Weightlifting is a sport where competitors attempt to lift heavy weights mounted on steel bars. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... One of the Black September terrorists on the balcony of the Israeli team quarters at the Olympic village The Munich assassination occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, a group with... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ... Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... A Black September operative on a balcony in the Olympic Village in September 1972, during what became known as the Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed. ...