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Sport
  
Fencing

Name
  
Lion Minden

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Born
  
10 June 1880 (
1880-06-10
)
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Died
  
September 6, 1944, Auschwitz concentration camp

Lion van Minden (10 June 1880 – 6 September 1944) was a Dutch Olympic epee fencer.

Van Minden was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and was Jewish. He participated in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England. Van Minden was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

References

Lion van Minden Wikipedia