Endre Kabos

Endre Kabos, born on 5 November 1906 and died on 4 November 1944, was a Hungarian sabre fencer who competed individually and with the team at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics and won three gold medals and one bronze medal. Noticed internationally after winning the Slovak Championships in 1928, he then collected six gold medals and one silver in sabre at the European Championships between 1930 and 1935. He was Jewish and was interned for five months in a forced labour camp in Vax during the Second World War, was called up in June 1944 to labour camps for Jews and taught army officers sabre fencing, and died on 4 November 1944 on the Margaret Bridge in Budapest while German soldiers were preparing explosives to blow it up; unidentified remains were found in 2011. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1986. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article.