Elka de Levie - Biography

Elka de Levie (November 21, 1905 – 12 December 1979) was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

De Levie was born in Amsterdam. She was the only Jewish team member to survive the Holocaust; her team mates Anna Dresden-Polak, Jud Simons and Helena Nordheim died in Sobibor, while Estella Agsteribbe was gassed in Auschwitz. De Levie died in 1979 in anonymity in Amsterdam.

She married a man named Boas, but they were divorced in 1943. She survived the Second World War and died on 12 December 1979.

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts

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