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.