Jud Simons

Dutch artistic gymnast

Jud Simons

1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right.

Personal information
Born| (1904-08-20)20 August 1904
The Hague
Died| 20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (aged 38)
Sobibor extermination camp
Gymnastics career
Discipline| Women's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented|  Netherlands

Medal record

Women's gymnastics
Representing the  Netherlands
Summer Olympics
| 1928 Amsterdam | Team

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]

## Notes

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1. ^ Her name is sometimes also spelt Judikeje.
2. ^ "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions".
3. ^ Paauw, Ruud (2018). "Triumph and tragedy: Dutch 1928 women's gymnastics team" (PDF). Journal of Olympic History. 1: 32–35.

## Further reading

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* Brouwer, Erik (2010). "De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg". In van Liempt, Ad; Luitzen, Jan (eds.). Sport in de Oorlog (in Dutch). L.J. Veen. pp. 29–58\. ISBN 978-90-204-1936-8.

## External links

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

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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

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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around

Summary

* 1928:  Netherlands
* 1936:  Germany
* 1948:  Czechoslovakia
* 1952:  Soviet Union
* 1956:  Soviet Union
* 1960:  Soviet Union
* 1964:  Soviet Union
* 1968:  Soviet Union
* 1972:  Soviet Union
* 1976:  Soviet Union
* 1980:  Soviet Union
* 1984:  Romania
* 1988:  Soviet Union
* 1992:  Unified Team
* 1996:  United States
* 2000:  Romania
* 2004:  Romania
* 2008:  China
* 2012:  United States
* 2016:  United States
* 2020:  ROC
* 2024:  United States

1928:  Netherlands (NED) 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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