Name Abraham Mok | Role Olympic athlete | |
Born 15 May 1888Amsterdam ( 1888-05-15 ) Similar People Estella Agsteribbe, Maximilian Kolbe, Friedl Dicker‑Brandeis, Dora Gerson, Julius Hirsch | ||
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 to die during the Holocaust of the 1940s.
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Athletic career
Mok was part of the Dutch gymnastics team, which finished seventh in the team event at the 1908 Summer Olympics, held in London.
In the individual all-around competition Mok finished 78th.
Death and legacy
Mok, who had ethnic Jewish parents, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp located in Oświęcim, Małopolskie, Poland and killed there on February 29, 1944. Mok was one of four members of the 1908 Dutch gymnastics team to die in the Holocaust, sharing the grim fate with teammates Isidore Goudeket, Abraham de Oliviera, and Jonas Slier.
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