Jud Simons

Jud Simons
Jud Simons
	1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right.
Personal information
Born	20 August 1904; The Hague
Died	20 March 1943 (aged 38); Sobibor extermination camp
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country; represented	File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Women's gymnastics
Representing the File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Summer Olympics

Judikje^[1] "Jud" Simons (20 August 1904 – 20 March 1943) was a Dutch Jewish gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she was chosen as a reserve member of the Dutch gymnastics team and won the gold medal with her teammates. The team was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.^[2]

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.^[3]

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^ Her name is sometimes also spelt Judikeje.
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External links

Jud Simons at databaseOlympics.com
Jud Simons commemoration, Yad Vashem website

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v t e Sobibor extermination camp
Camp organizers	Odilo Globocnik Hermann Höfle Richard Thomalla Erwin Lambert Karl Steubl Christian Wirth
Commandant	Franz Stangl ^a Franz Reichleitner ^b
Deputies	Karl Frenzel Hermann Michel Johann Niemann Gustav Wagner
Gas chamber executioners	Erich Bauer Kurt Bolender
Other officers	Rudolf Beckmann Paul Bredow Herbert Floss Erich Fuchs Siegfried Graetschus Lorenz Hackenholt Josef "Sepp" Hirtreiter Alfred Ittner Erich Lachmann Willi Mentz Paul Rost Ernst Stengelin Ernst Zierke Heinrich Barbl Franz Wolf
Guards	Trawnikis John Demjanjuk
Resistance Survivors	Sobibor uprising Philip Bialowitz Thomas Blatt Selma Engel-Wijnberg Leon Feldhendler Dov Freiberg Alexander Pechersky Joseph Serchuk Stanisław Szmajzner Jules Schelvis
Nazi organizations	General Government SS-Totenkopfverbände List of Sobibor extermination camp personnel
Aftermath Memorials	Sobibor trial Sobibór Museum Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Escape from Sobibor Sobibor Sobibor perpetrator album
Related topics	The Holocaust Operation Reinhard Höfle telegram Extermination camp
^a 28 April to 30 August 1942 ^b 1 September 1942 to 17 October 1943 ^c Up to 200 Death camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau Belzec Chełmno Majdanek Sobibor Treblinka

v t e Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around
Summary
1928: File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 1936: Germany 1948: Czechoslovakia 1952: File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936–1955).svg Soviet Union 1956: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1960: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1964: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1968: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1972: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1976: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1980: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1984: File:Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg Romania 1988: File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1992: File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team 1996: Error creating thumbnail: United States 2000: File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 2004: File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 2008: File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 2012: Error creating thumbnail: United States 2016: Error creating thumbnail: United States 2020: File:Russian Olympic Committee flag.png ROC 2024: Error creating thumbnail: United States
1928: File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Estella Agsteribbe, Jacomina van den Berg, Alida van den Bos, Petronella Burgerhof, Elka de Levie, Helena Nordheim, Ans Polak, Petronella van Randwijk, Hendrika van Rumt, Jud Simons, Jacoba Stelma, Anna van der Vegt

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