Simon Okker

Simon Okker was a Dutch Olympic epee and foil fencer, who was killed in the Auschwitz [concentration camp].

Biography

Okker was Jewish, and was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He participated in the 1906 [Intercalated Games] in Athens, Greece, coming in 5th, and in the 1908 [Summer Olympics] in London, England.
Okker was killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
His grandson Tom Okker became a successful tennis player.