When Atlanta hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics , the Jewish community took action to encourage formal recognition and remembrance of the 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group during the 1972 Summer Olympics , known as the Munich massacre . When it became clear the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) was not going to have any commemoration or give a mention , the Atlanta Jewish community , largely through the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta , organized their own ceremony with the families of the Israelis who were killed
Munich massacre
Munich massacre
History of the Jews in Atlanta