�va Sz�kely is a Hungarian Jewish female swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. She was a Hungarian swim champion and set a national speed record in 1941, despite almost not being permitted to start, because she was a Jew. She was excluded from competition for the next four years. She survived the Holocaust in part because she was so well known. Her daughter, Andrea Gyarmati was a backstroke and butterfly swimmer who won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Her former husband Dezs? Gyarmati is a champion in water polo. 

April 3rd, 1927 in Budapest  /  Died:   Feb 29th, 2020 - aged 92