Andre Spitzer was a fencing master and coach of Israel

Israel

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's 1972 Summer Olympics

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 team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by Palestinians in the Munich massacre

Munich massacre

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Spitzer was born in Romania

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, and emigrated to the Netherlands

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 in 1964 to coach fencing with "Master Abrahams" in The Hague. Most of his first year in the Netherlands he stayed with the Smitsloo family in Scheveningen. He and one of his students, Ankie, were married in 1971.