LONDON (AP) -- The Olympics have Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern games. The Paralympics have Sir Ludwig Guttmann. Guttmann, a Jewish neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany, pioneered ...

Ludwig Guttmann had planned carefully for July 29, 1948. That day, King George VI opened the London Olympics at Wembley Stadium, an occasion delayed for years by World War II. An hour to the northwest ...

Ludwig Guttman, a German-English Jewish refugee, bucked colleagues and convention when he combined spinal injury recovery with sports and mental health. “Although I saw many more victims suffering the ...

The Olympics have Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern games. The Paralympics have Sir Ludwig Guttmann. Guttmann, a Jewish neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany, pioneered athletic ...

(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Alma. The 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games open on Tuesday. Much like the Olympic Games in the Japanese capital, there are plenty of Jewish athletes to support, ...

‘A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games,’ by Lori Alexander. ‘A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games,’ by Lori Alexander. “A Sporting Chance: ...

Professor Kakulas produced an excellent article drawing on his unique experience. 1 I worked with Sir Ludwig Guttmann at Stoke Mandeville intermittently between 1956 and his death in 1980 and I have ...

Sir Ludwig sowed the seeds for the Paralympics in 1948 in Britain when he organised sporting competitions for injured patients in Stoke Mandeville, many of who were rehabilitating from World War Two ...

As a young child, Loeffler and her brother Dennis (pictured below) were taken by their father, a highly respected German neurologist, to England in 1939 as they fled Nazi Germany. Several years later, ...