Abraham Mok
Dutch gymnastics team, 1908
Personal information
Country represented Netherlands
Born(1888-05-15)15 May 1888
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died29 February 1944(1944-02-29) (aged 55)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics

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.[3]

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.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Abraham Mok". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Abraham Mok," Sports-Reference.com/
  4. 1 2 The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2000. p. 61. ISBN 9780813528205.


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