Helena Nordheim Explained

Helena Nordheim
Birth Date:	1 August 1903
Birth Place:	Amsterdam
Death Place:	Sobibor extermination camp
Discipline:	WAG

Helena "Lea" Nordheim (1 August 1903 – 2 July 1943) was a Dutch gymnast.^[1] She won the gold medal as a member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam.^[2] With her team, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.^[3]

Nordheim was born in Amsterdam and was murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp.^[4] 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.^{[5] [6]}

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts

Further reading

• Book: Brouwer, Erik . De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg . van Liempt . Ad . Luitzen . Jan . Sport in de Oorlog . 2010 . Dutch . 29–58 . L.J. Veen . 978-90-204-1936-8.

External links

• • • • Commemoration of Helena Nordheim, Yad Vashem website.

Notes and References

1. Book: Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists . Sussex Academic Press . Taylor . Paul . 2004 . 9781903900871 .
2. Helena Nordheim . 12 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121105202956/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/lea-nordheim-1.html . 5 November 2012.
3. Web site: International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions .
4. Book: Schaffer . Kay . Smith . Sidonie . The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games . 2000 . . 978-0-8135-2820-5 . 60–62.
5. Book: Taylor, Paul . Jews and the Olympic Games . 2004 . . 978-1-903900-87-1 . 107.
6. Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018.