Estella Agsteribbe

Dutch artistic gymnast and holocaust victim (1909-1943)

Estella Agsteribbe

1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Estella Agsteribbe is fifth from the right.

Personal information

Country represented

Netherlands

Born

(1909-04-06)6 April 1909
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Died

17 September 1943(1943-09-17) (aged 34)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland

Cause of death

Execution by poisonous gas

Discipline

Women's artistic gymnastics

Medal record

Women's gymnastics

Representing the Netherlands
Olympic Games
	1928 Amsterdam	Team

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]

References

^ "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions".
^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871.
^ Mayer, P.Y. (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport : a springboard for minorities. Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 9780853034513. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
^ Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5.
^ Yogi Mayer, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games. Vallentine Mitchell. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-85303-451-3.
^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games. Sussex Academic Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-903900-87-1.
^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.