Jud Simons

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

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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External links

Jud Simons at databaseOlympics.com

Jud Simons commemoration, 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 for 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

20th-century Dutch people