After being kicked off her gymnastics team in 1941 due to her Jewish heritage, Keleti fled to the countryside of Hungary, where she worked as a maid and assumed a new name to escape the Holocaust.
With the assistance of renowned Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, her mother and sister managed to escape the war,
But her father and other family members died in Auschwitz, joining the more than half a million Hungarian Jews who were murdered in Nazi death camps and by Hungarian Nazi collaborators.
After the war, Keleti resumed her career and was scheduled to participate in the 1948 London Olympics,
But her plans were ruined by an ankle injury at the last minute. At the age of 31, she made her Olympic debut four years later in 1952 in Helsinki,
When she won two bronzes, a silver, and a gold medal in the floor exercise. With four gold and two silver medals from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics,
