Lion van Minden

Lion van Minden (10 June 1880 – 6 September 1944) was a Dutch Olympic epee fencer, who was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

[1][3] He was the son of Abraham Lion van Minden (1850-1915) and Branca Ziekenoppasser (1855-1943), and the husband of Esther Mina Schlossberg (1893-1945).

[4] His fencing club was Koninklijke Officiers Schermbond, in Den Haag.

[1] Van Minden competed in saber in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England, at 27 years of age.

[1] Van Minden was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.