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Anna Dresden-Polak

1906 - 1943

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Anna "Ans" Dresden-Polak (née Anna Polak) (24 November 1906 – 23 July 1943) 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 (who was murdered in Auschwitz), Lea Kloot-Nordheim (who was murdered in Sobibor), and Judikje Themans-Simons (who was murdered in Sobibor). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Dresden-Polak has received more than 44,954 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Dresden-Polak is the 1,667th most popular athlete (down from 1,135th in 2019), the 960th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 828th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Dutch Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Anna Dresden-Polak ranks 1,667 out of 6,025Before her are Giancarlo Ferrari, Erika Lechner, Katrin Krabbe, Carl Osburn, Bengt Nilsson, and Francis Frederick. After her are Lyudmila Titova, Konstantin Volkov, Dragutin Topić, Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský, Marilyn White, and Ernesto Formenti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Anna Dresden-Polak ranks 394Before her are David Smith, Jorge Góngora, Edward Akufo-Addo, Sidney Darlington, John Betjeman, and Vincent Sherman. After her are Pedro Bergés, Klaus Egge, Daulat Singh Kothari, Barbara Bennett, Thomas S. Gates Jr., and René Fernández. Among people deceased in 1943, Anna Dresden-Polak ranks 221Before her are Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, Vladimirs Petrovs, Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Leonhard Stejneger, Artur Knautz, and Helena Nordheim. After her are Herbert Roper Barrett, Frank Greer, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Stephen Vincent Benét, Léon Thiébaut, and Montagu Love.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Anna Dresden-Polak ranks 960 out of 1,646Before her are Ferry Corsten (1973), Arne Slot (1978), Wim Crusio (1954), Stan Valckx (1963), Duncan Laurence (1994), and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (1973). After her are Harry Lubse (1951), Johan van Hulst (1911), Pieter Willem Korthals (1807), Rita Verdonk (1955), Ewine van Dishoeck (1955), and Maxime Verhagen (1956).

Among ATHLETES In Netherlands

Among athletes born in Netherlands, Anna Dresden-Polak ranks 17Before her are Chris Berger (1911), Hermanus Brockmann (1871), Bertha Brouwer (1930), Mia Gommers (1939), Harry Steevens (1945), and Ria Stalman (1951). After her are Dafne Schippers (1992), Johannes Terwogt (1878), Walter Middelberg (1875), Frode Andresen (1973), Erik Hartsuiker (1940), and Frans Maassen (1965).