Estella Agsteribbe

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.

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

See also

List of select Jewish gymnasts

List of victims of Nazism

World War II casualties of Poland

References

Further reading

External links

Estella Agsteribbe commemoration, Yad Vashem website

1909 births

1943 deaths

Dutch people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp

Dutch female artistic gymnasts

Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Jewish gymnasts

Jewish Dutch sportspeople

Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands

Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands

Gymnasts from Amsterdam

Dutch civilians killed in World War II

Olympic medalists in gymnastics

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees

Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust

20th-century Dutch women

20th-century Dutch people