Árpád Weisz
Árpád Weisz was a Hungarian Olympic football player and manager. Weisz was Jewish, and was killed with his wife and children by the Nazis during The Holocaust in World War II at Auschwitz.Career
Playing career
Weisz played club football as a left winger in Hungary for Törekvés SE, in Czechoslovakia for Makabi Brno, and in Italy for Alessandria and Internazionale.
Weisz earned seven international caps between 1922 and 1923, and was a member of the Hungarian squad at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A serious injury cut short his playing career.Coaching career
After retiring as a player in 1926, Weisz became an assistant coach at Alessandria before moving to F.C. Internazionale Milano, where at the age of 34 he won one championship in the 1929–1930 season. Weisz had three separate spells as manager of Inter, 1926–28, 1929–31, and 1932–34, managing Giuseppe Meazza among his players. He also coached Bari, Novara and Bologna, where he won two league titles before he was forced to flee Italy with his wife and two children following the enactment of the Italian Racial Laws. Weisz finished his career by coaching FC Dordrecht in the Netherlands, leaving in 1940 following the outbreak of the Second World War.
Four years later he was arrested by the SS and killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz concentration camp, with his family of four when they were gassed immediately upon entering Birkenau.
