Simon Okker

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| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands

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| event = epee and foil

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Simon Okker (1 June 1881 – 6 March 1944) was a Dutch Olympic epee and foil fencer, who was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ok/simon-okker-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418050631/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ok/simon-okker-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|title=Simon Okker|publisher=sports-reference.com|accessdate=23 November 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22976 |title=Simon Okker |work=Olympedia |access-date=25 March 2021}}

Biography

Okker was Jewish, and was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4OP_5zzOBNMC&dq=%22Lion+van+Minden%22&pg=PT62 Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame] 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.{{cite book|author=Kay Schaffer & Sidonie Smith|title=The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games|publisher=Rutgers University Press|page=61|year=2000|isbn=0-8135-2820-8}}{{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}}

His grandson Tom Okker became a successful tennis player.