Jacques Ochs
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Representing  Belgium
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1912 Stockholm | Team epée |
Jacques Ochs (18 February 1883 – 3 April 1971), was a Jewish Belgian artist and Olympic fencer in the épée style (in which he was champion) and competed in the saber, and foil fencing categories.[1][2]
Biography
Ochs was Jewish,[1][3] and was born in Nice, France. His family moved to Liège, Belgium, in 1893.[4] He was the Belgian Champion fencer in 1912 and competed for Belgium in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, winning a gold medal in the team épée event (his teammates included Gaston Salmon).[1][5] He also competed in three individual events at the same Olympics. In the individual foil and individual épée categories, he reached the 2nd round before being eliminated (he finished 39th in foil, and 29th in épée.) Ochs's final event was individual sabre, but he was eliminated in the 1st round.
Whilst pursuing a career as a professional fencer, he also worked at the newspapers "Newspaper of Liège", "Small Parisian", and "the Belgian Nation", drawing caricatures.
During the Second World War, he was imprisoned on December 17 in the Fort Breendonk camp.[1] The camp's prisoners suffered from starvation, grass eating, torture, hangings, and shootings. He survived imprisonment.[6][7][8]
Ochs died in Liège in 1971, 88 years old.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-903900-88-8.
- ^ "Jacques Ochs". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ Wechsler, Bob (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8.
- ^ National Memorial Fort Breendonk
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Jacques Ochs". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II ... – James M. Deem
- ^ "Concentration Camps List". www.tartanplace.com. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Ochs, Jacques (1947). Breendonck. Bagnards et Bourreaux. Brussels: Albert Parmentier. ASIN B00179NLV8. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ The GFH Mission
Bibliography
- Duweiz, Yves (June 2000). "Victor Boin - Jacques Ochs: Deux hommes de leur temps" [Victor Boin - Jacques Ochs: Two Men of Their Time]. Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (87): 48–53. ISSN 1243-8650.
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- Belgian male épée fencers
- Belgian male foil fencers
- Jewish male épée fencers
- Jewish Belgian sportspeople
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- Académie Julian alumni
- Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium
- Olympic fencers of Belgium
- Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Belgium
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Belgian caricaturists
- Jewish caricaturists
- Belgian military personnel of World War I
- Breendonk prison camp survivors
- 1883 births
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Nice
- Belgian Jews
- Belgian people of French descent
- 20th-century Belgian painters
- Jewish male foil fencers
- Jewish male sabre fencers