Judikje "Jud" Simons (20 August 1904 – 20 March 1943) was a Dutch
gymnast who competed in the
1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...
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In 1928 she won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team. The team was inducted into the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
She was born in
The Hague and was murdered in
Sobibor extermination camp together with her husband Bernard, their five-year-old daughter Sonja and their three-year-old son Leon.
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Yad Vashem website
1904 births
1943 deaths
Dutch female artistic gymnasts
Jewish Dutch sportspeople
Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust
Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Jewish gymnasts
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic gymnasts of the Netherlands
Gymnasts from The Hague
Dutch people who died in Sobibor extermination camp
Dutch civilians killed in World War II
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
20th-century Dutch women
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