Judikje Simons

Judik Simons

The gymnasts of the Dutch gold team of 1928

Personal information

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

Medal table

Olympic games

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Medals

Olympic games
gold	Amsterdam 1928	Team all-around

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

Stumbling blocks on the Nieuwegracht in Utrecht

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.

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personal data
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