Kurt Epstein was a champion swimmer and water-polo player who represented Czechoslovakia in two Olympiads, one of them in Berlin in 1936, but after the Holocaust and communism, he was forgotten in his homeland. Recently, his daughter decided to commemorate his life, centering an exhibition around his century-old tallit

My project of writing my father back into history started with a joke, a tallit (prayer shawl) and a heap of sports photographs.

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