{{short description|Dutch artistic gymnast}} {{Infobox gymnast |name= Abraham Mok |image=Dutch_gymnastics_team_at_the_1908_Olympic_Summer_Games.jpg |imagesize= |caption=Dutch gymnastics team, 1908 |country= {{GYM National Team|NED|MAG}} |formercountry= |birth_date= {{Birth date|df=y|1888|5|15}} |birth_place=Amsterdam, Netherlands |hometown= |residence= |death_date= {{death date and age|df=y|1944|02|29|1888|05|15}} |death_place=Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland |height= |discipline=MAG |medaltemplates= <!-- see Template:MedalRelatedTemplates --> }}

'''Abraham Mok''' (15 May 1888 &ndash; 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.<ref name="WWII">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/30752 |title=Abraham Mok |work=Olympedia |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>

==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.<ref name=SR>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123707/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/abraham-mok-1.html "Abraham Mok,"] Sports-Reference.com/</ref>

In the individual all-around competition Mok finished 78th.<ref name=SR />

===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.<ref name=Mill>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=Mill />

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