Estella Agsteribbe Explained

Estella Agsteribbe
Birth Date:	6 April 1909
Birth Place:	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Death Place:	Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland Embed: yes Death Cause: Execution by poisonous gas
Discipline:	WAG

Estella "Stella" Agsteribbe (6 April 1909 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam. The team was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.^[1]

Like other members of her team (Lea Nordheim, Ans Polak, Judikje Simons, Elka de Levie) and their coach Gerrit Kleerekoper, she was Jewish^{[2] [3]} and deported during World War II. She was murdered^[4] together with her husband Samuel Blits, their six-year-old daughter Nanny and their two-year-old son Alfred in the Auschwitz concentration camp.^{[5] [6] [7]}

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts
• List of victims of Nazism
• World War II casualties of Poland

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

• • Estella Agsteribbe commemoration, Yad Vashem website

Notes and References

1. Web site: International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions .
2. 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 .
3. Book: Jews and the Olympic Games: sport : a springboard for minorities. Mayer, P.Y.. 2004. Vallentine Mitchell. 9780853034513. 2015-04-14.
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: Yogi Mayer, Paul . Jews and the Olympic Games . 2004 . . 978-0-85303-451-3 . 238.
6. Book: Taylor, Paul . Jews and the Olympic Games . 2004 . . 978-1-903900-87-1 . 107.
7. Web site: 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 . Sports Reference.