Judikje Simons
Judik Simons | |||||||
The gymnasts of the Dutch gold team of 1928 |
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Surname: | Judikje Simons | ||||||
Nationality: | Netherlands | ||||||
discipline | Apparatus gymnastics | ||||||
Birthday: | 20th August 1904 | ||||||
Place of birth: | The hague | ||||||
Death day: | March 20, 1943 | ||||||
Place of death: | Sobibor | ||||||
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Judikje Simons (born August 20, 1904 in The Hague ; † March 20, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp ) was a Dutch gymnast .
Athletic career
Simons won as a reserve gymnast at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam together with Elka de Levie , Helena Nordheim , Anna Polak , Estella Agsteribbe , Jacoba Stelma , Jacomina van den Berg , Alida van den Bos , Anna van der Vegt , Petronella van Randwijk , Petronella Burgerhof and Hendrika van Rumt won the gold medal in the team competition.
Further life and murder
Five of the twelve gymnasts in the Dutch gold team were of Jewish descent. So did Judikje Simons, later Themans-Simons.
On May 1, 1935, she married Bernhard Salomon Themans . Both lived in the Centraal Israëlitisch Weeshuis in Utrecht , where they were employed as foster parents for orphans. After the invasion of the German Reich in the Netherlands, the couple with his children and foster children and the entire staff of the orphanage was deported .
In March 1943 Simons was murdered together with her husband, her five-year-old daughter Sonja and her three-year-old son Leon in the Sobibor extermination camp.
In addition to Simons, Helena Nordheim, Anna Polak, Estella Agsteribbe and their trainer Gerrit Kleerekoper were murdered by the National Socialists . Only Elka de Levie survived.
In 2010, five stumbling blocks by the German artist Gunter Demnig were laid on the sidewalk in front of the former orphanage in memory of the victims.
Web links
- The fate of the Jewish gymnastics Olympic champions in the all-around competition 1928 (PDF; 17 kB)
- Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
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SURNAME | Simons, Yudikye |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Themans-Simons, Judikje |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | dutch gymnast |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th August 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1943 |
Place of death | Sobibor extermination camp |