Anna Dresden-Polak

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Not to be confused with Anna Sophia Polak.
Ans Polak
Women's artistic gymnastics
Medal record
Women's gymnastics
Representing the  Netherlands
Summer Olympics
Gold medal – first place 1928 Amsterdam Team

Anna "Ans" Dresden-Polak (née Anna Polak) (24 November 1906 – 23 July 1943) was a Jewish Dutch gymnast.[1][2][3]

She won the

Judikje Themans-Simons (who was murdered in Sobibor).[3][5] Their coach, Gerrit Kleerekoper, was murdered in Sobibor as well.[5][7]

She was born in

Westerbork concentration camp, she had been deported to Sobibór, where she was murdered on 23 July 1943,[8] together with her six-year-old daughter Eva.[9][10] Her husband, Barend Dresden was murdered a few months later in 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp.[10][11][12]

She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[4][13]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9781903900888. Retrieved 27 January 2013 – via Google Books
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  2. ISBN 9781602800137. Retrieved 27 January 2013 – via Google Books
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  3. ^ a b Paauw, Ruud (Winter 1994). "After the Glory" (PDF). Citius, Altius, Fortius. 2 (1). Durham, N.C.: International Society of Olympic Historians: 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Dresden-Polak, Anna". Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  5. ^ a b c Lipman, Steve. "Connecting the World to Jewish News, Culture, and Opinion". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  6. ^ IX Olympic Games - Official Report (PDF). Amsterdam: Nederlands Olympisch Comité*Nederlandse Sport Federatie. 1928. p. 694 – via LA 84 Foundation.
  7. ^ "NETHERLANDS 1928 OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS". Jewishsports.net. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  8. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5 – via Google Books
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  9. ISBN 978-1-903900-87-1 – via Google Books
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    ISBN 9780740788895. Retrieved 27 January 2013 – via Google Books
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  11. ISBN 978-0-85303-451-3 – via Google Books
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  12. ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  13. ^ "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions".

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
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External links
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