Lucie Gordian

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Lucie Gordian (née Goldner ; born 1918 in Vienna ; died 2000 in Melbourne ) was an Austro-Australian swimmer .

Life

Lucie Goldner participated in the Maccabiade in Tel Aviv in 1935 . In 1936 she was one of eight Jewish athletes who were appointed to the Austrian Olympic team by the ÖOC . Six of them, including the swimmers Judith Deutsch and Ruth Langer , boycotted the Olympic Games in Berlin as a sign of protest against the racial policy of the Third Reich and because of the persecution of Jews in Germany .

Lucie Goldner, like the other two Hakoah swimmers, German and Langer, was banned for life by the Austrian Swimming Association and all titles and medals were declared forfeit. Only after massive international protests was the ban reduced to two years, but the deletion of their names from the list of best performances remained. Rehabilitation only took place on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Austrian Swimming Association (VÖS).

Goldner was arrested after the annexation of Austria in 1938, but was able to escape to London, where she married the Czech emigrant Henry Gordian. Her brother Peter and her father also escaped, and her mother was a victim of the Holocaust . After the war, Lucie and Henry Gordian and their daughter went to Czechoslovakia , but had to leave Prague after the Communist takeover in 1948 and came to Australia. Gordian trained the swim team of the state of Victoria there . She got involved in the Women's International Zionist Organization . She died in the year of the Olympic Games in Sydney .

literature

  • 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 . Washington DC 2000. ISBN 1-574-88128-0 .
  • Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver: Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports . New York 1965.
  • Paul Taylor: Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics . Sussex Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 1-903900-87-5 .
  • Matthias Marschick: “We're not boycotting the Olympics, we're boycotting Berlin.” Three Jewish swimmers write history , in: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (ed.) Athletes in the “Century of Camps”. Profiteers, resistors and victims. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt, 2012, pp. 188–193.

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  1. ↑ Foreign soldiers and refugees in Swiss internment camps , at: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , April 29, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gordian, Lucie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldner, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2000
Place of death Melbourne