Simon Okker

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Simon Okker (born June 1, 1881 in Amsterdam , † March 6, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Dutch fencer .

Simon Okker worked in the diamond trade. He was a son of Hatog Okker and his wife Clara, nee Schenkdan. In 1909 he married Keetje Klos; the couple had a son, Samuel Hartog, and a daughter, Clara Annette. Keetje Okker died in 1938 at the age of 51.

In 1906, Simon Okker started in the foil competition at the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens and finished fifth. Two years later he took part in the Olympic Games in London in the sword tournament, but was eliminated in the first round.

Simon Okker was of Jewish origin. From June 11, 1943, he was interned in a penal barracks in the Westerbork transit camp. From there he wrote 20 letters to his family that have survived. In early March 1944, Okker was transported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on March 6th. His daughter Annette Clara was killed there in January of the same year, as was her husband Bernard van Hessen.

The son Samuel Hartog survived the Second World War . His son is the Dutch tennis player Tom Okker and Simon Okker is his grandfather. The grandson was born two weeks before the grandfather's death.

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  1. ↑ Schermen. (No longer available online.) In: sportinbrabant.info. Archived from the original on July 7, 2016 ; Retrieved July 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportinbrabant.info
  2. ↑ BS Huwelijk with Simon Okker. In: wiewaswie.nl. Retrieved July 18, 2016 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ Gezin Simon Okker. In: joodsmonument.nl. February 28, 2006, accessed July 18, 2016 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Dirk Mulder, Ben Prinsen (ed.): Verhalen uit kamp Westerbork (= Westerbork Cahiers. 3). Uitgeverij Van Gorcum et al., Assen et al. 1995, ISBN 90-232-3024-8 , p. 59 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Annette Clara Okker. In: joodsmonument.nl. Retrieved July 18, 2016 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Simon Okker 1881–1944 - Ancestry. In: ancestry.com. March 6, 1944, accessed July 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ . Anthony Th Bijkerk: The Netherlands. (PDF) SportsLibrary, accessed July 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Okker, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch fencer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp