Sim Gokkes

Simon (Sim) Gokkes (21 March 1897 in Amsterdam – 5 February 1943 in Auschwitz) was a Dutch-Jewish composer.

As a child, Gokkes took his first singing lessons with Ben Geysel, an opera singer who ran the Rembrandt Theatre of Amsterdam.

He studied composition with Sem Dresden and also piano and flute at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, finishing in 1919.

For years he was director of the Santo Serviçio, the choir of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.

Along with his wife and his two children, David and Rachel, he was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp on 5 February 1943.