David Berger National Memorial

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The David Berger National Memorial was built in memory of David Mark Berger. He was a U.S. citizen who ran as an athlete for Israel in 1972.

Berger was one of the eleven Israeli athletes who are at the " hostage-taking of Munich " during the Olympic Summer Games were killed in 1972.

Berger was a 28 -year-old weightlifter. The monument is dedicated to the memory of David Berger and the other ten killed athletes.

The black steel sculpture that looks like broken Olympic rings to represent the disruption of the Olympic Games in Munich. The eleven segments on which the rings are attached, stand for the eleven slain athletes. The sculpture was made by the native Romanians David E. Davis.

The sculpture was erected in 1975 on the lawn of the Mayfield Jewish Community Center ( 3505 Mayfield Road), Cleveland Heights. The National Memorial was approved on 5 March 1980. Because of the termination of the Mayfield Centre in 2005, the monument to the almond Jewish Community Center ( 26001 South Woodland Road) was placed in Beachwood. Although the monument is officially under the supervision of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the maintenance of the monument of the church is made.

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