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Anton de Kom

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Anton de Kom
Born22 February 1898
Paramaribo, Suriname
Died24 April 1945
Sandbostel, Germany
Cause of deathMurder by Nazis

Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and communist. The Dutch colonizers imprisoned him and exiled him to the Netherlands, where he joined the anti-fascist resistance. He died in the Neuengamme concentration camp.[1]

The New Communist Party of the Netherlands regularly commemmorates De Kom's work as an anti-colonial revolutionary and antifascist resistance fighter.[2] It and its youth wing have argued that De Kom's explicit communism is being ignored or downplayed in mainstream commemmorations and coverages of De Kom.[3]

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