Abraham Mok
{{short description|Dutch artistic gymnast}}
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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.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/30752 |title=Abraham Mok |work=Olympedia |access-date=1 March 2021}}
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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123707/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/abraham-mok-1.html "Abraham Mok,"] Sports-Reference.com/
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.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMzYdZpk8qMC&pg=PA61 |page=61 |location=Piscataway, NJ |publisher=Rutgers University Press |title=The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games |isbn=9780813528205 |year=2000 }} 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.
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Category:Dutch male artistic gymnasts
Category:Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands
Category:Gymnasts from Amsterdam
Category:Dutch civilians killed in World War II
Category:Dutch people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Category:Jewish Dutch sportspeople
Category:Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust
Category:20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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