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Elka de Levie (21 November 1905 29 December 1979) was an Amsterdam-born Dutch gymnast who won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was the only Jewish team member to survive the Holocaust; her teammates Anna Dresden-Polak, Jud Simons and Helena Nordheim and coach Gerrit Kleerekoper were gassed in Sobibor, while Estella Agsteribbe was gassed in Auschwitz. The entire team was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[1]

Elka de Levie

De Levie (second from right) with her Gold winning team (1928)
Medal record
Women's gymnastics
Representing the  Netherlands
Summer Olympics
1928 Amsterdam Team

On 31 October 1929 she married Andries Abraham Boas, with whom she had two daughters, but the couple were divorced on 20 April 1943. She and both her daughters survived the Second World War by going into hiding. Elka de Levie died in anonymity in Amsterdam on 29 December 1979.[2][3][4]


See also



References


  1. "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champsions".
  2. Paul Yogi Mayer, Jews and the Olympic Games (2004), p. 238
  3. Amsterdam City Archives, [de] Levie, Elka, NL-SAA-7063393
  4. Uzi Dann, Olympic gold could not save them from the gas chambers in Haaretz, April 8, 2013

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- [en] Elka de Levie

[it] Elka de Levie

Elka de Levie (Amsterdam, 21 novembre 1905 – Amsterdam, 12 dicembre 1979) è stata una ginnasta olandese di origine ebraica, unica superstite dell'Olocausto tra i componenti ebrei della squadra olimpica del 1928.

[ru] Де Леви, Элка

Элка де Леви (нидерл. Elka de Levie, 21 ноября 1905 года — 29 декабря 1979 года) — нидерландская гимнастка. В составе сборной Нидерландов по гимнастике завоевала золотую медаль на Олимпиаде 1928 года в своём родном Амстердаме.



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