# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-helfgott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:53:03.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-helfgott"
name: "Ben Helfgott"
slug: "ben-helfgott"
description: "Sir Benjamin Helfgott was a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor, Olympian and champion weightlifter. He was one of two Jewish athletes known to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust, along with Alfred Nakache, a French champion swimmer and water polo player. Helfgott and his sister Mala Tribich spent their adult lives promoting Holocaust education, meeting with national leaders in the UK to promote cultural integration and peace."
tagline: "British weightlifter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Helfgott%2C_November_2021_(KBG_GPO682)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1929-11-22"
deathDate: "2023-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.888986666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ben Helfgott"
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    title: "بن هلفجوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott"
    title: "Ben Helfgott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott"
    title: "Ben Helfgott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott"
    title: "Ben Helfgott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott"
    title: "Ben Helfgott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott"
    title: "Ben Helfgott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%95%D7%98"
    title: "בן הלפגוט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott"
    title: "Ben Helfgott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump