What is David Koker?
{{Infobox person | name = David Koker | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|11|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], [[North Holland]], [[Netherlands]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1945|02|23|1921|11|27|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Nazi Germany]] (modern-day [[Germany]]) | known_for = He wrote a diary during his stay at [[Herzogenbusch concentration camp|Camp Vught]] | occupation = Student | nationality = [[Dutch people|Dutch]] | father = Jesaia Koker | mother = Judith Koker | relatives = Max Koker<br/> (brother) }} '''David Koker''' ({{birth date|1921|11|27|df=yes}} – {{death date|1945|02|23|df=yes}}) was a Jewish student who lived with his family in [[Amsterdam]], until they were captured at nighttime in February 1943, and transported to [[Kamp Vught|Camp Vught]]. == Biography == David Koker was the child of Jesaia Koker and Judith Koker. He had a brother named Max. David was forced to drop out of university in September 1941, when the university forbidded Jews from studying there. His family recieved an exemption, thinking they were safe, and therefore they did not consider hiding from the Germans. Despite that, they were arrested and transported to [[Kamp Vught|Camp Vught]] in February 1943. David [[Education|educated]] children there. In July 1943, David was temporarily saved from deportation by [[Frits Phillips]], and joined his army. In June 1944, all of Phillips' army were deported to the Birkenau camp. From there, they would be deported to other camps to work for electronic companies. David's mother Judith and brother Max survived [[World War II]]. Unfortunately, David died in February 1945 in Germany, during a transfer of ill people to the Dachau camp. His father too died of [[exhaustion]] in Groß-Rosen. David published ''Modern-Hebreeuwze poëzie'' in 1941. The 87-paged small book, was a bilingual edition of modern Hebrew poetry, with translations in Dutch. Melkamn, a pseudonym of Jozeph Michman, who was born in 1914