Jud Simons
Dutch artistic gymnast
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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 | (1904-08-20)20 August 1904 The Hague | ||||||||||||||
Died | 20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (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.
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Further reading
- 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 at databaseOlympics.com
- Jud Simons commemoration, Yad Vashem website
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Sobibor extermination camp
- Odilo Globocnik
- Hermann Höfle
- Richard Thomalla
- Erwin Lambert
- Karl Steubl
- Christian Wirth
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- Resistance
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- General Government
- SS-Totenkopfverbände
- List of Sobibor extermination camp personnel
- Aftermath
- Memorials
- a 28 April to 30 August 1942
- b 1 September 1942 to 17 October 1943
- c Up to 200
- Death camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Belzec
- Chełmno
- Majdanek
- Sobibor
- Treblinka
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