Abraham Mok Explained

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]

Biography

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.[3]

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 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018 . Sports Reference.
  2. Web site: Abraham Mok . Olympedia . 1 March 2021.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123707/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/abraham-mok-1.html "Abraham Mok,"
  4. Book: The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games . 61 . Piscataway, NJ . Rutgers University Press . 9780813528205 . 2000 .