[1][2][3] She won the gold medal as a member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics, in her native Amsterdam.

[5][7] She was born in Amsterdam, and was murdered in Sobibor extermination camp.

From Westerbork concentration camp, she had been deported to Sobibór, where she was murdered on 23 July 1943,[8] together with her six-year-old daughter Eva.

[9][10] Her husband, Barend Dresden was murdered a few months later in 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp.

[10][11][12] She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.