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Source: https://www.yadvashem.org/press-release/22-july-2021-11-52.html
Yad Vashem Marks Olympics with Online Exhibitions Commemorating Jewish and non-Jewish Athletes
(Yad Vashem) Gymnast Estella Agsteribbe was one of five Jewish women to participate in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928. In 1943, Estella and her two children were murdered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp - simply because they were Jewish. On the occasion of the opening of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is promoting two online exhibitions to commemorate both Jewish and non-Jewish athletes during WWII. One is entitled "Jews and Sports before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective." It includes the story of cousins Gustav and Alfred Flatow, who represented Germany at two Olympic Games but were murdered during the Holocaust for being Jews. The second online exhibition, "The Game of their Lives," tells the stories of a dozen brave non-Jewish athletes recognized as Righteous Among the Nations who risked their own lives to rescue their Jewish compatriots from Nazi persecution.