Biography

About Abraham Kok

Abraham Kok was a blacksmith and worked as an engine driver for the Dutch Railways. In the Central Railwaystation in Amsterdam there is a plaquette on which is written that Abraham Kok ‘has fallen for the Netherlands’. But this description does not correspond to what really happened to Abraham Kok.
Addition of a visitor of the website

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Amsterdam. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.