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Dutch artistic gymnast
Helena "Lea " Nordheim (1 August 1903 – 2 July 1943) was a Dutch
gymnast .
[1] She won the gold medal as a member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the
1928 Summer Olympics in her native
Amsterdam .
[2] With her team, she was inducted into the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
[3]
Nordheim was born in Amsterdam and was murdered in the
Sobibor extermination camp .
[4] As a Jew, she was sent to
Westerbork concentration camp in June 1943. Shortly after, Nordheim was deported to Sobibór where she was murdered, together with her husband Abraham and their ten-year-old daughter Rebecca.
[5]
[6]
See also
References
^ Taylor, Paul (2004).
Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists . Sussex Academic Press.
ISBN
9781903900871 .
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;
Mallon, Bill ; et al.
"Helena Nordheim" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com .
Sports Reference LLC . Archived from
the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2011 .
^
"International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions" .
^ Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000).
The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games .
Rutgers University Press . pp. 60–62.
ISBN
978-0-8135-2820-5 .
^ Taylor, Paul (2004).
Jews and the Olympic Games .
Sussex Academic Press . p. 107.
ISBN
978-1-903900-87-1 .
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;
Mallon, Bill ; et al.
"Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com .
Sports Reference LLC . Archived from
the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018 .
Further reading
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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a 28 April to 30 August 1942
b 1 September 1942 to 17 October 1943
c Up to 200
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