Dr. Oszkár Gerde (8 July 1883 – 8 October 1944) was a Hungarian

sabre A sabre ( French: �sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ...

fencer who won team gold medals at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics. After finishing his active career he judged international fencing competitions and worked as a lawyer. Being a

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...

, he was deported from Hungary in 1944, and killed in the same year at the

Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 further ...

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. In 1989 he was inducted into the

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gerde, Oszkar 1883 births 1944 deaths Olympic fencers of Hungary Fencers from Budapest Hungarian people who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Jewish Hungarian sportspeople Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Hungarian male sabre fencers Jewish male sabre fencers International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust

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