Jonas Slier (22 March 1886 in
Amsterdam
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– 5 November 1942 in
Auschwitz concentration camp
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) was a Dutch
gymnast
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who competed in the
1908 Summer Olympics
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.
Jonas Slier was part of the Dutch gymnastics team, which finished seventh in the
team event. In the
individual all-around competition he finished 96th. There is no evidence that another Jonas Slier, the uncle of Philip Slier was the athlete mentioned above.
[(Hidden Letters, Star Bright Books 2008, pp. 10, 47, 116, 159,160, 167 note 42 C).]
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1886 births
1942 deaths
Dutch male artistic gymnasts
Jewish Dutch sportspeople
Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands
Gymnasts from Amsterdam
Dutch people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Dutch civilians killed in World War II
Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust
20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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