Guillaume Hoorickx Explained

Guillaume Hoorickx
Position:	Centre^[1]
Nationality:	Belgian
Sport:	Ice hockey
Birth Date:	12 April 1900

Guillaume Hoorickx otherwise Willem Hoorickx (12 April 1900  - 31 October 1983) was a Belgian ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Winter Olympics.^[2] During World War II, he worked as an agent for Victor Sukolov in the Red Orchestra network.^[3] He was imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.^[4]

He was also an artist, under the name Bill Orix.^{[5] [6]} A collection of his works is held by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.^[7]

See also

• People of the Red Orchestra

Notes and References

1. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/354892/william-hoorickx William Hoorickx
2. William Hoorickx Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418122915/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/william-hoorickx-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 10 May 2019.
3. Book: The Rote Kapelle : the CIA's history of Soviet intelligence and espionage networks in Western Europe, 1936-1945 . 1986 . 293 . 9780890932032 . 1 August 2022.
4. Web site: Olympians Who Survived Nazi Concentration Camps . Olympedia . 22 July 2022.
5. Adrian M. Darmon, 2003: Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers. Carnot, p. 269
6. Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute (ed.): A checklist of Painters (1200–1994). Routledge 2014, p. 235
7. https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/artist/orix-bill-1 Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique: Guillaume Hoorickx, dit Bill Orix