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Ellen Burka was born on 11 August, 1921 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a Dutch figure skater. Discover Ellen Burka's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?
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95 years old |
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Leo |
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11 August 1921 |
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11 August |
| Birthplace |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Date of death |
12 September, 2016 |
| Died Place |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Canada
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Ellen Burka Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Ellen Burka Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ellen Burka worth at the age of 95 years old? Ellen Burka’s income source is mostly from being a successful skater. She is from Canada. We have estimated Ellen Burka's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Ellen Burka ( Danby; August 11, 1921 – September 12, 2016) was a Canadian-Dutch figure skater and coach.
In the spring of 1943, she and her family were sent to Westerbork Transit camp.
Burka was Dutch National Champion in 1946 and 1947 before becoming a coach in Toronto.
Finding Canadian figure skating to be rigid and technical, she decided to blend it with ballet and modern dance, and introduced more imaginative choreography.
The family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1950.
Ellen and Jan Burka divorced in the mid-1950s.
She raised her two daughters, Petra and Astra, in the Anglican Church and told them of her background when they were in their late teens.
Ellen had herself registered at Westerbork as the 'Dutch National Figure Skating Champion', at that time such a championship did not exist, the first official one to be held in 1951.
Westerbork's commander, Albert Konrad Gemmeker, was very interested in figure skating and ordered that Ellen's skates and apparel be sent to the camp.
There she was allowed to practice on the frozen pond.
Ellen also gave culinary advice at Gemmeker's home and it was the commander's female companion who made sure Ellen was not sent to Sobibor but to Theresienstadt instead.
Her parents and grandmother were sent to Sobibor extermination camp only to be killed there.
Danby met Czech-born artist, Jan Burka, at Theresienstadt concentration camp.
After liberation of the camp by the Soviet Union Army the two walked from Theresienstadt (near Prague) to Ellen's hometown Amsterdam (about 900 kilometres/560 miles) in just 2 weeks time to get married on non-communist soil.
She coached her daughter Petra Burka to a bronze medal for Canada at the 1964 Olympics and to the gold at the 1965 World Championships.
In 1968, she became the coach of Toller Cranston, who won six Canadian national titles and the 1976 Olympic bronze medal.
She became a member of the Order of Canada in 1978 and was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Ellen Danby was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Jewish parents who met in England.
She learned German and English at home and Dutch and French in school.
In 1978, Burka was made Member of the Order of Canada "For elevating skating to an art form and for imaginative choreography on the ice".
In 1996, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
A documentary about Ellen Burka, Skate to Survive, was directed by her daughter Astra and premiered at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in May 2008.
She was also inducted into the Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame, the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (October 2013).
Virtually unknown in her native Netherlands, her life story was captured in Andere Tijden Sport, a sports history program on Dutch national public TV, in January 2015.
For this documentary, she returned to Amsterdam to visit her former family home and the Westerbork Transit camp.
Burka taught at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club and at The Granite Club in Toronto, Ontario.
She died in Toronto on September 12, 2016.
