How The Most Famous Cyclist In The World Saved Jewish Families During WWII
Gino Bartali is best known as a cycling legend who holds the record for the longest time span between victories at the Tour de France. Lately it’s revealed that during World War 2 Bartali sheltered a local Jewish family in an apartment purchased with his cycling winnings, and smuggled counterfeit identity documents around Tuscany and Umbria, enabling numerous Jews to conceal their true identities and avoid deportation to a concentration camp
