Elka de Levie
| Script error: No such module "InfoboxImage". Elka de Levi in 1928 | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's gymnastics | ||
| Summer Olympics |
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 murdered in Sobibor, while Estella Agsteribbe was murdered in Auschwitz. The entire team was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[1]
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
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Further reading
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
- Database Olympics profile
- Elka de Levie commemoration, Yad Vashem website
- Template:Sports links
Template:Olympic champions artistic gymnastics Women TC
Template:Netherlands-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub
Template:Asbox
- Pages with script errors
- 1905 births
- 1979 deaths
- Dutch female artistic gymnasts
- Jewish Dutch sportspeople
- Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Gymnasts from Amsterdam
- Dutch Holocaust survivors
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Dutch sportswomen