Symons, Judith

Yudika Simons ( August 20, 1904 - March 20, 1943 ) is a Dutch gymnast . As part of the Netherlands national team in gymnastics, she won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

Yudika Simons
Olympic Netherlands team in gymnastics. Yudika is on the extreme right.
personal information
Citizenship	Netherlands
Floor	female
Original name	the nether Judikje simons
Date of Birth	August 20, 1904 ( 1904-08-20 )
Place of Birth	Hague
Date of death	March 20, 1943 ( 1943-03-20 ) (38 years)
Place of death	Sobibor
Coach (s)	Gerrit Clearcover
Awards and medals

The stumbling block in memory of Yudik in Utrecht

Like the rest of the team ( Estella Agsteribbe , Elka De Levy , Helena Nordheim and Anna Dresden-Polyak ), as well as the team coach Gerrit Clearcover was Jewish ^{[1] [2]} and was harassed during World War II .

In 1935 she married Bernard Timans. The couple headed the Central Jewish orphanage in Utrecht ^[3] .

The couple were deported to Sobibor together with 70 pupils of the orphanage, of whom only a few people survived the war. Bernard, Yudika, their five-year-old daughter Sonia and the three-year-old son Leon were killed after their arrival.

In 1997, the entire Netherlands national gymnastics team was included in the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ^[4] .

In 2010, near the building of the former orphanage in Utrecht, stumbling blocks were installed, including in memory of Yudik ^[5] .