Simon Okker
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Biography
Okker was Jewish, and was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[1][3] He participated in the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece, coming in 5th, and in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England.[1]
Okker was killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.[4][5]
His grandson Tom Okker became a successful tennis player.
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- 1881 births
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- Dutch male épée fencers
- Dutch people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Jewish Dutch sportspeople
- Jewish épée fencers
- Fencers at the 1906 Intercalated Games
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for the Netherlands
- Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust
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- Dutch civilians killed in World War II
- Dutch male foil fencers
- Jewish foil fencers
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen