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Anton de Kom

Anton de Kom

1898–1945

Nationality
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Occupation
poet

Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Neuengamme concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  2. Neuengamme concentration camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author. He was arrested in Suriname and the protest against his arrest resulted in two deaths. De Kom was subsequently exiled to the Netherlands where he wrote Wij slaven van Suriname ("We Slaves of Surinam"), an anti-colonial book. During World War II, he joined the resistance, was arrested, and sent to concentration camps where he died. In 2020, de Kom was added as a subject on the Canon of the Netherlands, a chronological list of fifty key events and people in Dutch history to be taught in schools.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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