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* [https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/sport/dutch-gymnastics-team.asp Jud Simons] commemoration, [[Yad Vashem]] website
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Jud Simons
1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right.
Personal information
Born(1904-08-20)20 August 1904
The Hague
Died20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (aged 38)
Sobibor extermination camp
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country represented Netherlands
Medal record
Women's gymnastics
Representing the  Netherlands
Summer Olympics
Gold medal – first place 1928 Amsterdam Team

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

  1. ^ Her name is sometimes also spelt Judikeje.
  2. ^ "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions".

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.