Anna Dresden-Polak

Anna "Ans" Dresden-Polak 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, Lea Kloot-Nordheim, and Judikje Themans-Simons. 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.