Estella Agsteribbe
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| Estella Agsteribbe | |||||||||||||
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 1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Lea Nordheim, Anna (Ans) Polak, Estella Agsteribbe, Judikje Simons, Gerrit Kleerekoper, Elka de Levie |
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| Country represented |  Netherlands |
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| Born | April 6, 1909 | ||||||||||||
| Died | September 17, 1943 (aged 34) Auschwitz concentration camp |
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| Hometown | Amsterdam | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||
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Estella "Stella" Agsteribbe (April 6, 1909 – September 17, 1943) was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam.
She was Jewish.[1][2] During World War II she was deported and murdered[3] together with her husband Samuel Blits and their six-year-old daughter Nanny and their two-year-old son Alfred in the Auschwitz concentration camp.[4][5]
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- ^ Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 9780813528205. http://books.google.com/books?id=nMzYdZpk8qMC&pg=PA61&dq=holocaust+%22After+the+games%22&hl=en&ei=N7I_TbCOBYT68AaBu7WjBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=holocaust%20%22After%20the%20games%22&f=false.
- ^ Yogi Mayer, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games. Vallentine Mitchell. p. 238. ISBN 9780853034513. http://books.google.com/books?id=HXuBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Samuel+Blits%22&dq=%22Samuel+Blits%22&hl=en&ei=2YNATd_YBsL-8AbE0o2MBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA.
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games. Sussex Academic Press. p. 107. ISBN 9781903900871. http://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&pg=PA107&dq=%22Agsterribe,+her+six%22&hl=en&ei=EspATe_zBIH48Aa99qCjBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Agsterribe%2C%20her%20six%22&f=false.
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