BERLIN — When Nancy Glickman lights the torch for the 14th European Maccabi Games, being held for the first time in Berlin, she believes that her father, Marty Glickman, would have been proud of the honor — and the irony — of his legacy inspiring hundreds of Jewish athletes competing in the facilities that Hitler triumphantly presided over during the 1936 Olympic Games.
“There would be a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his face, like he’d be thinking, ‘Yeah, they should be there,’” Ms. Glickman said Monday, standing beneath the Olympic rings at the Nazi-era Olympiastadion where her father, an American track and field star from Brooklyn, marched in the opening ceremony 79 years ago.