Kurt Epstein (January 29, 1904 – February 1, 1975) was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player and survivor of Nazi concentration camps.

He grew up in Roudnice nad Labem on the bank of the Elbe River, 22 miles north of Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia.

[8] He returned to Prague after World War II, and was elected a member of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee.

[9] They had a daughter, Helen Epstein, who became a writer and an associate professor of journalism at New York University, and two sons.

[9] After a decade of being unable to find steady employment, he ultimately became a cutter in a clothing factory of Star Children's Wear in the Garment District.