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Jud Simons
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
Medal record Women's gymnastics Representing the  Netherlands Summer Olympics 1928 Amsterdam Team

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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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※

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

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