Portrait of Sir Ludwig Guttman, founder of the Paralympic Games (Photo via Stoke Mandeville) LONDON (JTA) — In 1917, Ludwig Guttmann, a young German Jew volunteering as an orderly in the local Accident Hospital for Coalminers, came across a strong miner with a broken back. The patient, he was told, would be dead within three months. In fact, he died after five weeks.… Read more »
