Idy Kohn
Idy Kohn was an Austrian swimmer .
She was Austrian backstroke champion and, alongside Hedy Bienenfeld , Fritzi Löwy , and the swimmers Lucie Goldner , Ruth Langer and Judith Deutsch, who boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, was one of the most famous swimmers of the Jewish sports club Hakoah in Vienna.
At the European Championships in 1928, the swimmers Hedy Bienenfeld-Wertheimer and Idy Kohn placed in the medal ranks.
After Austria's annexation in 1938, she had to emigrate to the United States because of her Jewish origins .
literature
- Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1707–1708.
- Ignaz H. Körner: Lexicon of Jewish Sportsmen in Vienna 1900-1938 . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85476-265-2 .
- Joseph Siegman: Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame . Potomac Books, Washington DC 2000, ISBN 978-1574881288 .
- Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver: Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports . Bloch Publishing Company, New York 1965.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohn, Idy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |