Jacques Ochs (18 February 1883 – 3 April 1971), was a

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Belgian artist and Olympic fencer in the

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style (in which he was champion) and competed in the saber, and

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Ochs was Jewish, and was born in Nice, France. His family moved to Liège,

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, in 1893.National Memorial Fort Breendonk
/ref> He was the Belgian Champion fencer in 1912 and competed for Belgium in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, winning a gold medal in the team épée event (his teammates included

Gaston Salmon Gaston Joseph Clement Marie Salmon (5 March 1878 – 30 April 1918) was a Belgian épée, foil, and sabre fencer. He was Jewish. Early and personal life Salmon was born in Marcinelle, in the city of Charleroi, in Belgium, and was Jewish, ...

). He also competed in three individual events at the same Olympics. In the individual foil and individual épée categories, he reached the 2nd round before being eliminated (he finished 39th in foil, and 29th in épée.) Ochs's final event was individual sabre, but he was eliminated in the 1st round. Whilst pursuing a career as a professional fencer, he also worked at the newspapers "Newspaper of Liège", "Small Parisian", and "the Belgian Nation", drawing caricatures. During the Second World War, he was imprisoned on December 17 in the

Fort Breendonk Fort Breendonk ( nl, Fort van Breendonk, french: Fort de Breendonk) is a former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium which served as a Nazi prison camp (''Auffanglager'') during the German occupation of Belgium during Wo ...

camp. The camp's prisoners suffered from starvation, grass eating, torture, hangings, and shootings. He survived imprisonment.''The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II ...'' – James M. Deem
/ref> Ochs died in Liège in 1971, 88 years old.The GFH Mission
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