Professional Gymnast, Olympic Gold Medalist. She was born one of ten children as Helena Lea Nordheim in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to David Nordheim (1851-1916), and his wife Rebecca Overste Nordheim (1856-1915), on August 1, 1903. She was a professional gymnast who was a member of the club BATO, Amsterdam (NED), of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She would eventually go onto represent her home country of the Netherlands at the 1928 Summer Olympics that were held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Together with her team members including her coach Gerrit Kleerekoper, Stella Agsteribbe, Nel van Randwijk, Mien van den Berg, Ans Polak, Alie van den Bos, Hendrika van Rumt, Annie van der Vegt, Elka de Levie, and Co Stelma, she was part of the Dutch women's gymnastics team which won an Olympic Gold Medal in the Team All-Around Competition Artistic Gymnastics Women's Event. The twelve woman team participated in the Apparatus Event and received a score of 110.00 points and the Horse Event and received a score of 108.25 points. Her final team standing score result was 316.75 team points and 98.50 team drill points . She continued to represent club BATO, Amsterdam (NED), of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and be active in sports events until her death. She was married to Abraham Kloot (1902-1943), with whom she had one child, a daughter ten year old Rebecca Kloot (1933-1943). Sadly, during World War II, she and her family were among the millions of Jews who were rounded up during the Holocaust during the Adolf Hitler Nazi regime and taken to concentration camps across Europe. She was first sent to the Westerbork Concentration Camp in Westerbork, Netherlands, in June of 1943 and then to the Sobibor Concentration Camp in Sobibór, Poland, where she was reunited with her family for a time. Her husband, and her daughter were taken to the Sobibor Concentration Camp in Sobibór, Poland, after they were arrested. She herself was put to death along with her husband Abraham Kloot, and her ten year old daughter Rebecca Kloot on July 2, 1943. She was just 39 years old. Sadly, many of her husband's family members and her own family members including her brothers and sisters, and a few of her team members from the Olympic Games had also been put to death in the gas chambers at concentration camps. The team was posthumously inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Netanya, Israel, in 1997.