Estella Agsteribbe

{{short description|Dutch artistic gymnast and holocaust victim (1909-1943)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|04|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands

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| death_place = Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland

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| death_cause = Execution by poisonous gas

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Estella "Stella" Agsteribbe (6 April 1909 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam. The team was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.{{cite web |title= International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Netherlands1928OlympicChampions.htm }}

Like other members of her team (Lea Nordheim, Ans Polak, Judikje Simons, Elka de Levie) and their coach Gerrit Kleerekoper, she was Jewish{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |isbn=9781903900871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&dq=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+adler&pg=PA223}}{{cite book|title=Jews and the Olympic Games: sport : a springboard for minorities|author=Mayer, P.Y.|date=2004|publisher=Vallentine Mitchell|isbn=9780853034513|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXuBAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-04-14}} and deported during World War II. She was murdered{{cite book |last1=Schaffer |first1=Kay |last2=Smith |first2=Sidonie |title=The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMzYdZpk8qMC&dq=holocaust+%22After+the+games%22&pg=PA61 |year=2000 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-2820-5 |pages=60–62}} together with her husband Samuel Blits, their six-year-old daughter Nanny and their two-year-old son Alfred in the Auschwitz concentration camp.{{cite book |last=Yogi Mayer |first=Paul |title=Jews and the Olympic Games |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXuBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Samuel+Blits%22 |year=2004 |publisher=Vallentine Mitchell |isbn=978-0-85303-451-3 |page=238}}{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Paul |title=Jews and the Olympic Games |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&dq=%22Agsterribe%2C+her+six%22&pg=PA107 |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |isbn=978-1-903900-87-1 |page=107}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}