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Irving "Toots" Meretsky (May 17, 1912 – May 18, 2006) was a Canadian basketball player.

Biography

He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Windsor, Ontario, he was part of the Canadian basketball team, which won the silver medal. He played two games.

He was Jewish, and was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.^[1]

He is the uncle of lawyer Harvey Thomas Strosberg.^[2]

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[1] "The Nazi Olympics (Berlin 1936)—Jewish Athletes; Olympic Medalists". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved July 16, 2015.

[2] ttp://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=e0620b51-c36e-443f-aa14-50c7bd7f9258&sponsor=

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 *[http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/alumni/sportsHall.nsf/982f0e5f06b5c9a285256d6e006cff78/aeea72f03c80204f85256dfa00681480!OpenDocument Alumni Sports Hall of Fame profile]
-*[http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=MERETIRV01 dataOlympics profile]
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