Anton de Kom

Anton de Kom was born on 22 February 1898 in Paramaribo, in a working-class Creole neighbourhood; his father had been born in slavery. An employee of a balata company, he defended the bleeders there, then left in 1920 for the Netherlands, where he was a volunteer hussar and a sales representative. A member of the League against Imperialism, he wrote for the communist press. Back in Suriname in January 1933, he was arrested the following month, held for more than three months and sent away without trial. A resistance fighter under the German occupation, he died at the Sandbostel camp on 24 April 1945.

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• EssayWe Slaves of SurinameWij slaven van SurinameAnton de Kom · 1934Literature