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SPORTS HISTORYCyclist Gino Bartali honoredBY ANDREW DAMPFAP SPORTS WHITE*T • Gino Bartali 'ke about this vears. vorld War »n cyclist 'e 1938 'ranee *s in Tgnetwork in his hometown of Florence and the surrounding area.“Why did he do it? Andrea Bartali said. “He was a great sportsman and his idea was that sport, and mainly cycling, if it’s not a life lesson and solidarity, then it is totally useless.Two Holocaust survivors Bartali helped, 'liulia Baquis and Giorgio 'ldenberg, attended rsday’s ceremony, 'onor recognizes vs who risked x to save Jews holocaust, •red him a aid. “I’ve ed him *■ saw ' on *?r *arrested by the Germans, deported and sent to his death, the network continued functioning.Goldenberg was a child when his entire family was hidden by Bartali, who was a friend of his father’s.“I’m alive because Bartali hid us in a cellar, the 81-year-old Goldenberg, who now lives in Israel, told the Italian Jewish monthly Pagine Ebraiche.Oscar-nominated director Oren Jacoby just finished editing a film called “Don’t Talk About It: Italy’s Secret Heroes.” It’s a documentary that tells the story of Bartali and other Italians who helped Jews during the Holocaust.“Of course, there were bad stories, and e show that there were ’ians who were sent to hwitz and there were when there were vho didn’t do the •* Jacoby said. *ere so many 5nstances, as just a 'gm for • did. taliEleve durim ery efNE1Diana48-houManhavictimsthat raitions.“It h. imagine said as 8:48 a.m by whoo crowd.“That Nyad, bi receiving spoke to i Nyad, started t in the 40-lanhattai v to uslt;
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