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{{Short description|Dutch artistic gymnast (1903–1943)}}
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'''Helena''' "'''Lea'''" '''Nordheim''' (1 August 1903 – 2 July 1943) was a Dutch [[Artistic gymnastics|gymnast]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |isbn=9781903900871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&dq=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+nordheim+lea&pg=PA237}}</ref> She won the gold medal as a member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the [[1928 Summer Olympics]] in her native [[Amsterdam]].<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/lea-nordheim-1.html |title=Helena Nordheim |access-date=12 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105202956/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/lea-nordheim-1.html |archive-date=5 November 2012}}</ref> With her team, she was inducted into the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1997.<ref>{{cite web |title=International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Netherlands1928OlympicChampions.htm}}</ref>

Nordheim was born in Amsterdam and was murdered in the [[Sobibor extermination camp]].<ref name="Schaffer">{{cite book |last1=Schaffer |first1=Kay |last2=Smith |first2=Sidonie |title=The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMzYdZpk8qMC&dq=holocaust+%22After+the+games%22&pg=PA61 |year=2000 |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8135-2820-5 |pages=60–62}}</ref> As a Jew, she was sent to [[Westerbork concentration camp]] in June 1943. Shortly after, Nordheim was deported to Sobibór where she was murdered, together with her husband Abraham and their ten-year-old daughter Rebecca.<ref name="Taylor">{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Paul |title=Jews and the Olympic Games |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&dq=%22Helena+Nordheim%22&pg=PA107 |year=2004 |publisher=[[Sussex Academic Press]] |isbn=978-1-903900-87-1 |page=107}}</ref><ref name="WWII">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Jews in sports#Gymnastics|List of select Jewish gymnasts]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Brouwer |first=Erik |chapter=De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg |editor1-last=van Liempt |editor1-first=Ad |editor2-last=Luitzen |editor2-first=Jan |title=Sport in de Oorlog |year=2010 |language=Dutch |pages=29–58 |publisher=L.J. Veen |isbn=978-90-204-1936-8}}

==External links==
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130121111400/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=NORDHLEA01 |title=Helena Nordheim at databaseOlympics.com |date=21 January 2013 }}
* [https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/sport/dutch-gymnastics-team.asp Commemoration of Helena Nordheim], [[Yad Vashem]] website.

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[[Category:1903 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
[[Category:Dutch female artistic gymnasts]]
[[Category:Jewish Dutch sportspeople]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Gymnasts from Amsterdam]]
[[Category:Dutch people who died in Sobibor extermination camp]]
[[Category:Dutch civilians killed in World War II]]
[[Category:Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:20th-century Dutch sportswomen]]
[[Category:International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees]]


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