Gertrude Kleinová

Female, Person

1918 –

94

Who is Gertrude Kleinová?

Gertrude "Traute or Trude" Kleinová was a three-time world champion table tennis player, winning the women's team world championship twice, and the world mixed doubles once.

She and her first husband were deported by the Nazis to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and eventually sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where her husband was killed. She was posthumously inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

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Born
Aug 13, 1918
Brno

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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