Abraham Mok (15 May 1888 – 29 February 1944) was a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He is remembered as one of four members of that squad murdered during the Holocaust of the 1940s.[1][2]
| Abraham Mok | |
|---|---|
 Dutch gymnastics team, 1908 | |
| Personal information | |
| Country represented |  Netherlands |
| Born | 15 May 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 29 February 1944 (aged 55) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland |
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Biography
editAthletic career
editMok was part of the Dutch gymnastics team, which finished seventh in the team event at the 1908 Summer Olympics, held in London.[3]
In the individual all-around competition Mok finished 78th.[3]
Death and legacy
editMok, who had ethnic Jewish parents, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp located in Oświęcim, Małopolskie, Poland, and murdered there on February 29, 1944.[4] Mok was one of four members of the 1908 Dutch gymnastics team murdered in the Holocaust, sharing his fate with teammates Isidore Goudeket, Abraham de Oliviera, and Jonas Slier.[4]
Footnotes
edit- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ "Abraham Mok". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Abraham Mok," Sports-Reference.com/
- ^ a b The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2000. p. 61. ISBN 9780813528205.
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