František Getreuer (18 December 1906 – 6 February 1945) was a Czech national champion swimmer and Olympic

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Biography

Getreuer competed in the men's tournament at the

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, coming in 9th with the Czechoslovak water polo team. He won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle in the Third Slavic Swimming Championship in

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, in 1929. In the 1930 Czechoslovak Championship held, Getreuer won gold medals in the 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 1,500m freestyle, and 4x200-meter freestyle relay. At the

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, Getreuer won gold medals in the 400m freestyle and the 1,500m freestyle, as well as a team gold meal in water polo.דאר היום⁩, 17 מאי 1935⁩ — ןן הישגי ה"מכביה" השניה ⁨כתבה⁩
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, and was deported to Terezín concentration camp on 12 April 1941. He was later transported from Terezín to

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on 28 September 1944. He was murdered on 6 February 1945, at 38 years of age, in

, in

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, Germany.

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