Abraham Mok | |
Birth Date: | 1888 5, df=y |
Birth Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Death Place: | Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland |
Discipline: | MAG |
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]
Mok 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.
Mok, 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.