Ben Helfgott

Sir Benjamin Helfgott MBE (22 Nuwamba 1929 - 16 Yuni 2023) ɗan ƙasar Poland ne Wanda ya tsira daga Holocaust, ɗan wasan Olympics kuma mai ɗaukar nauyi. Ya kasance daya daga cikin 'yan wasa biyu na Yahudawa da aka sani sun yi gasa a wasannin Olympics bayan sun tsira daga Holocaust, tare da Alfred Nakache, mai tseren ruwa na Faransa da kuma dan wasan polo na ruwa. Helfgott ya shafe rayuwarsa ta girma wajen inganta ilimin Holocaust, ganawa da shugabannin kasa a Burtaniya don inganta hadin kan al'adu da zaman lafiya.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Helfgott a Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland . Yana da shekaru 9 lokacin da Jamus ta mamaye kasar a 1939. A shekara ta 1942, da farko ya shawo kan Nazis cewa shi dan kabilar Poland ne, kuma ba Bayahude ba ne. Daga bisani aka tura shi sansanin fursuna. Da farko an tura shi Buchenwald, Helfgott ya tsira daga Holocaust. An sake shi a shekara ta 1945, amma yana da rauni sosai. Ya kasance daga cikin marayu 732 da ba su kai shekara 16 ba da aka kawo Ingila bayan yakin ta CBF World Jewish Relief bayan an sake shi daga Theresienstadt; ya zama wani ɓangare na isowar 300 na farko kuma ta haka ne na ƙungiyar da aka sani da Windermere Children waɗanda aka aika zuwa Troutbeck Bridge lokacin da suka iso. Shi da ɗaya daga cikin 'yan uwansa mata (Mala Tribich, an haife shi Piotrków 24 Satumba 1930, yanzu yana zaune a London ) su ne kawai danginsa da suka tsira daga yaƙin; mahaifiyarsa da ƙaramar 'yar'uwarsa 'yar'uwa ta taru kuma ta harbe su. 

Akwai bayanin abubuwan da ya samu a lokacin da kuma bayan Holocaust a cikin littafin Martin Gilbert The Boys, The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors game da matasa 732 da suka tsira daga sansanin fursuna waɗanda aka aika zuwa Ingila bayan yakin.

 Ayyukan ɗaga nauyi 
Helfgott ya lashe gasar zakarun Burtaniya ta  (70  a shekara ta 1954, kuma ya kasance zakara mai sauƙi a shekara ta 1955, 1956, da 1958. Ya wakilci Burtaniya a cikin nauyin nauyi a gasar Olympics ta 1956 a Melbourne, Australia .

Helfgott ya kasance kyaftin din kungiyoyin masu ɗaukar nauyi na Burtaniya a Wasannin Olympics na 1960 a Melbourne da kuma wasannin Olympics nke 1960 a Roma . Bugu da kari, ya lashe lambar tagulla a wasannin Daular Burtaniya da Commonwealth na 1958 da aka gudanar a Cardiff, South Wales . Helfgott ya kuma lashe lambar zinare a cikin nauyin nauyi a wasannin Maccabiah na 1950, 1953 da 1957. 

 Bayyanar kafofin watsa labarai 
A matsayinsa na baƙo a shirin BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs a ranar 1 ga Afrilu 2007, ya zaɓi ya makale tare da kwafin Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy da mashaya tare da diski biyu don horo na nauyi.

A shekara ta 2010, Helfgott na ɗaya daga cikin Yahudawa biyar na Burtaniya da aka yi hira da su don baje kolin a Gidan Tarihin Yahudawa na London da ke bincika "hanyoyi daban-daban na zama Bayahude". 

A cikin 2018, Helfgott ya bayyana a cikin wani fitowar jerin shirye-shiryen BBC Wanene Kuna tunanin Kai ne? tare da Robert Rinder. A cikin shirin, Helfgott ya tuna yadda ya sadu da kakan mahaifiyar Rinder, Moszek (Moses, Morris), a sansanin fursuna na Schlieben.

 Rayuwa da mutuwarsa 
Helfgott ya auri Arza a shekarar 1966, tare da wanda ya haifi 'ya'ya maza uku da jikoki tara. Ya fara karatun a Jami'ar Southampton a 1948 amma ya fita bayan shekara guda kuma daga baya ya kasance abokin tarayya a cikin masana'antar tufafi.

Helfgott ya mutu a ranar 16 ga Yuni 2023, yana da shekaru 93. 

 Kyaututtuka, girmamawa da karbuwa 

 Poland 
60x60pxCross na Kwamandan Order of Merit na Jamhuriyar Poland (2005) 60x60pxKnight's Cross na Order of Merit na Jamhuriyar Poland (1994) 

 Ƙasar Ingila 
60x60pxKnight Bachelor (2018) 60x60pxmemba na Order of the British Empire (2000) 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1929