David Koker

At the start of the war, David Koker published a collection of poems that he had translated from Hebrew.
During his internment at camp Vught, David Koker kept a diary. After the war it was published: D.Koker, Dagboek geschreven in Vught (Amsterdam 1977).
J. van Adrichem (et al.), Rebel, mijn hart : kunstenaars 1940-1945 (Zwolle 1995) 65

On 22 February 1945 David Koker was deported to Dachau wi…

David Koker staat model voor het personage Jozef Pijp in De Avonden van G.K. van het Reve. Jozef Pijp is degene die met zijn broer de ruggen van de boeken van Frits van Egters kapot schoot met een luchtdrukpistool.

Goed nieuws 2012/januari vertaling in het Engels van het dagboek is klaar presentatie binnenkort

In addition, a Jokos file (number 491) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 6586/16342).

David Koker: AT THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944.

Edited by Robert Jan van Pelt.

Translated from the Dutch by Michiel Horn and John Irons

Copyright 2012 by Northwestern University Press
Originally Published in Dutch by G. A. van Oorschot as Dagboek geschreven in Vught, 1977