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Survivor of Holocaust, Munich attack heads back to Germany

Israeli Olympic racewalker Shaul Ladany poses for a photo after an interview with The Associated Press at the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli Olympic racewalker Shaul Ladany poses for a photo after an interview with The Associated Press at the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

FILE Two West German border police helicopters that carried armed terrorists and their nine Israeli Olympian hostages, stand at Fuerstenfeldbruck air force base, twenty miles west of Munich, Germany, on Sept. 7, 1972. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf, File)

A view of the former Olympic Games accommodation of the Israeli team in the Olympic village in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Israeli Olympic racewalker Shaul Ladany, right, talks to his granddaughter Raz Sharifi, at the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The sun lights memorial stones at the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli Olympic racewalker Shaul Ladany, second right, talks to his sister Martha Flatto-Zemanek, right, his granddaughter Raz Sharifi, second left, and nephew Assaf Flatto in front of a miniature model of the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen inside the former camp in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli Olympic race walker Shaul Ladany walks through the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

FILE - A memorial plaque for the eleven athletes from Israel and one German police officer were killed in a terrorist attack during the Olympic Games 1972, stands at the former accommodation of the Israeli team in the Olympic village in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

A view of a memorial stone at the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli Olympic race walker Shaul Ladany poses for a photo at the entrance of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Both attempts to murder him happened on German soil in the last century. Many decades later, the 86-year-year old Jew has returned to visit the two places where he narrowly escaped death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Survivor of Holocaust, Munich attack heads back to Germany