Endre Kabos

The native form of this personal name is Kabos Endre. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Endre Kabos

Personal information
Born	5 November 1906 Oradea, Austria-Hungary[1]
Died	4 November 1944 (aged 37) Budapest, Hungary
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event	Sabre
Club	Szolniki TIVC
Medal record Representing  Hungary 1932 Los Angeles Team sabre 1936 Berlin Individual sabre 1936 Berlin Team sabre 1932 Los Angeles Individual sabre

Endre Kabos (5 November 1906 – 4 November 1944) was a Hungarian sabre fencer. He competed individually and with the team at the 1932 and 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics and won three gold and one bronze medals. In the fall of 1935, the Nazi regime in Germany had passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws which stripped German Jews of citizenship, opportunities to receive a public education, and access to many professions and public facilities including municipal hospitals. Jewish businesses had been boycotted and Jews could not serve in the legal profession, the civil service, teach in secondary schools or universities or vote or hold public office.^[2]

Kabos was noticed internationally after winning the Slovakian Championships in 1928.^[1] He then collected six gold and one silver medals in sabre at the European Championships in 1930–1935.^[3][1]

Kabos was Jewish. During World War II he was interned for five months in a forced labor camp in Vax.^[1] He was called up in June 1944 to work at labour camps for Jews at the village of Felsöhangony, where he was teaching army officers the use of sabre fencing. Later he was transferred to Budapest and was given two horses and a cart to transport food and provisions for others in camp. On 4 November, the day before his 38th birthday, he was driving on Margaret Bridge while German soldiers were preparing explosives to blow up the bridge prior to it being used by the advancing Red Army which at that time was about 150 kilometers to the East of Budapest.^[1][4][5] Kabos died with many others and only some non-identifiable skeleton parts were found in 2011, when the bridge was being extended.^[6]

Kabos was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.^[7]

See also

• List of select Jewish fencers
• List of Jewish Olympic medalists

References

1. "Endre Kabos Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
2. "Anti-Jewish Legislation in Pre-War Germany". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
3. "Endre Kabos" Archived 18 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine. jewishsports.net
4. Wallechinsky, David; Loucky, Jaime (2012). The Book of Olympic Lists. Aurum Press. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-1-78131-081-6.
5. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
6. Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5.
7. Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900888.

External links

• Jewish Sports bio
• Jews in Sports bio
• Sunshine with actor Ralph Fiennes, a Movie inspired by his life at IMDb 
• Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-284-8.
• Photo in Holocaust Museum
• Hungarian bio
• Endre Kabos at Jewish.hu's list of famous Hungarian Jews