Jud Simons
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 1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right. | |||||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 August 1904 The Hague | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 March 1943 (aged 38) Sobibor extermination camp | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
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Judikje[1] "Jud" Simons (20 August 1904 – 20 March 1943) was a Dutch Jewish gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
In 1928 she won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team. The team was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[2]
She was born in The Hague and was murdered in Sobibor extermination camp together with her husband Bernard, their five-year-old daughter Sonja and their three-year-old son Leon.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Her name is sometimes also spelt Judikeje.
- ^ "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions".
Further reading
[edit]- Brouwer, Erik (2010). "De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg". In van Liempt, Ad; Luitzen, Jan (eds.). Sport in de Oorlog (in Dutch). L.J. Veen. pp. 29–58. ISBN 978-90-204-1936-8.
External links
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- Jud Simons commemoration, Yad Vashem website
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