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Ans Polak
Anna Polak in 1928
Personal information
Born	(1906-11-24)24 November 1906 Amsterdam
Died	23 July 1943(1943-07-23) (aged 36) Sobibor extermination camp
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Netherlands
Medal record Women's gymnastics Representing the  Netherlands Summer Olympics 1928 Amsterdam Team

Anna "Ans" Dresden-Polak (née Anna Polak) (24 November 1906 – 23 July 1943) was a Jewish Dutch gymnast.

She won the gold medal as a member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics, in her native Amsterdam. She was one of five Jewish members of the team, which included Stella Blits-Agsteribbe (who was murdered in Auschwitz), Lea Kloot-Nordheim (who was murdered in Sobibor), and Judikje Themans-Simons (who was murdered in Sobibor). Their coach, Gerrit Kleerekoper, was murdered in Sobibor as well.

She was born in Amsterdam, and was murdered in Sobibor extermination camp. From Westerbork concentration camp, she had been deported to Sobibór, where she was murdered on 23 July 1943, together with her six-year-old daughter Eva. Her husband, Barend Dresden was murdered a few months later in 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp.

She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts

References

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Further reading

• Brouwer, Erik (2010). "De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg". In van Liempt, Ad; Luitzen, Jan (eds.). Sport in de Oorlog (in Dutch). L.J. Veen. pp. 29–58. ISBN 978-90-204-1936-8.

External links

• Ans Polak at databaseOlympics.com
• Anna Dresden-Polak commemoration, Yad Vashem website

v t e Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around
Summary
1928:  Netherlands 1936:  Germany 1948:  Czechoslovakia 1952:  Soviet Union 1956:  Soviet Union 1960:  Soviet Union 1964:  Soviet Union 1968:  Soviet Union 1972:  Soviet Union 1976:  Soviet Union 1980:  Soviet Union 1984:  Romania 1988:  Soviet Union 1992:  Unified Team 1996:  United States 2000:  Romania 2004:  Romania 2008:  China 2012:  United States 2016:  United States 2020:  ROC 2024:  United States
1928:  Netherlands (NED), Estella Agsteribbe, Jacomina van den Berg, Alida van den Bos, Petronella Burgerhof, Elka de Levie, Helena Nordheim, Ans Polak, Petronella van Randwijk, Hendrika van Rumt, Jud Simons, Jacoba Stelma, Anna van der Vegt

• 1906 births
• 1943 deaths
• Dutch female artistic gymnasts
• Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Jewish Dutch sportspeople
• Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
• Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands
• Gymnasts from Amsterdam
• Dutch people who died in Sobibor extermination camp
• Dutch civilians killed in World War II
• Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust
• International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
• Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics
• 20th-century Dutch sportswomen