Endre Kabos (5 November 1906 – 4 November 1944) was a Hungarian sabre fencer. He competed individually and with the team at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won three gold and one bronze medals. Kabos was noticed internationally after winning the

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

n Championships in 1928. He then collected six gold and one silver medals in sabre at the European Championships in 1930–1935."Endre Kabos"
. jewishsports.net Kabos was Jewish. During World War II he was interned for five months in a forced labor camp in Vax, Hungary. He was called up in June 1944 to work at labour camps for Jews at the village of Felsöhangony, where he was teaching army officers the use of sabre fencing. Later he was transferred to Budapest and was given two horses and a cart to transport food and provisions for others in camp. On 4 November, the day before his 38th birthday, he was driving on

Margaret Bridge Margaret Bridge or Margit híd (sometimes ''Margit Bridge'') is a three-way bridge in Budapest, Hungary, connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube and linking Margaret Island to the banks. It is the second-northernmost and second-oldest publi ...

while German soldiers were preparing explosives to blow up the bridge prior to it being used by the advancing

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

which at that time was about 150 kilometers to the East of Budapest. Kabos died with many others and only some non-identifiable skeleton parts were found in 2011, when the bridge was being extended. Kabos was inducted into the

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around ...

in 1986.

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Endre Kabos at Jewish.hu's list of famous Hungarian Jews
1906 births 1944 deaths Hungarian male sabre fencers Jewish male sabre fencers Jewish Hungarian sportspeople Olympic fencers of Hungary Fencers at the 1932 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in fencing International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Hungarian civilians killed in World War II Hungarian World War II forced labourers {{Hungary-fencing-bio-stub

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