country death_date death_place club birth_place ethnicity olympics name sport birth_date image article_title citizenship occupation
austria 14 june 1942 izbica concentration camp 1.w.a.s.c ac , vienna -lrb- austria -rrb- . , vienna -lrb- austria -rrb- / wiener vienna , austria jewish 1896 , 1912 otto herschmann swimming and fencing 4 january 1877 file : otto herschmann.jpg otto herschmann
 austrian swimmer , fencer , lawyer , and sport official
otto herschmann

dr. otto herschmann -lrb- 4 january 1877 -- 14 june 1942 -rrb- was a jewish austrian swimmer , fencer , lawyer , and sports official .
herschmann won a silver medal at the initial modern olympic games , the 1896 summer olympics in athens , greece , in the men 's 100-metre freestyle event .
he also won a silver medal at the 1912 summer olympics , in the men 's team sabre event in fencing .
herschmann is one of only a few athletes who have won olympic medals in more than one sport .
he served as president of the austrian olympic committee from 1912 to 1914 .
herschmann was then president of the austrian swimming federation from 1914 to 1932 .
during the nazi era , herschmann was persecuted because he was jewish .
the nazis arrested him in vienna and deported him in 1942 to the sobibór extermination camp , and then to the izbica concentration camp , where he was killed .
