Jud Simons

Jud Simons
 Gymnast 

1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right.
Personal information
Country represented  Netherlands
Born (1904-08-20)20 August 1904
The Hague
Died 20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (aged 38)
Sobibor extermination camp
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics

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

In 1928 she won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team.

She was born in The Hague and died in Sobibor extermination camp. She was deported and murdered together with her husband Bernard and their five-year-old daughter Sonja and their three-year-old son Leon.

Notes

  1. Her name is sometimes also spelt Judikeje.

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