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Fifty years ago this month, at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic delegation were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a horrifying chain of events that would come to be known as the Munich Massacre. As the terrorist attack unfolded, one Israeli athlete, the star race walker Shaul Ladany, a man with an extraordinary gift for endurance whose world record stands to this day, was able to slip away and raise the alarm. For Ladany, who had survived World War Two and the horrors of Bergen-Belsen, it was not the first time he had stared the unthinkable in the face and escaped with his life. Please join us for a very special screening of The Survivor, ESPN’s superb one-hour documentary that tells Ladany’s story, hosted by its reporter Jeremy Schaap, one of ESPN’s most respected and longest-tenured personalities. In The Survivor, Ladany, now 86 years-old, reflects on the events in Munich, the arc of his life that led to that moment, and all that followed. Schaap will be joined by the film’s director, Frank Saraceno, and editor, Diego Martini for a discussion that will delve into this terrifying chapter in history and the film’s mission to tell the story of a man who is a towering example of resilience, endurance, and an unstoppable will to survive.