On September 5, 1972, during the Summer Olympics in Munich (West Germany), at dawn, eight members of the Palestinian organization "Black September" broke into the Israeli lodgings of the Olympic village and immediately killed two Israeli athletes and took them. nine others were held hostage, hoping to exchange them with 232 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and with German terrorists Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, held in Germany. The news of the kidnapping spread all over the world but the Olympics program continued to go on despite many asking for it to be suspended. The rescue operation, organized by the German security services, proved to be a disaster and led to the death of all the kidnapped athletes, five fedayyin and a German policeman. Not even after these events did the Olympics stop. Only a commemoration ceremony was organized at the Olympic Stadium in which 80.000 people and 3.000 athletes participated.
After 43 years, on December 2, 2015, a new, macabre background emerges on the Munich massacre. In September 1992, the athletes 'widows' lawyer received pictures of what had happened twenty years earlier, and Ilana Romano and Ankie Spitzer insisted on seeing them. The women also agreed to never speak publicly about those images, which until then they didn't even think existed. At least one of them, Yossef Romano, was castrated and raped by the kidnappers and left to die under the eyes of his comrades.