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Maccabi Tel Aviv players attended the screening of a special film about a football league at the time of the Holocaust
This week the world community commemorated International Holocaust Memorial Day, and as part of that commemoration a screening was held of the film "Liga Terezin" at Tel Aviv's Beit Hapalmach. The film tells the story of how in the shadow of the misery, starvation, death and the horror of the concentration camp transports suffered by the residents of the ghetto of Theresienstadt (in the Czech Republic), a football league was established and maintained in the years between 1942 and 1944. To this special event were invited the members of Israel's national U21 football team, among them three Maccabi Tel Aviv players Moannes Dabbur, Moshe Lugassi and Dor Micha. After the screening a panel was held on the subject with the participation of the historian professor Moshe Zimmerman, former Israeli parliamentarian Avraham Burg and Simon Kuper, author of the book "Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour".
