Salamo Arouch (January 1 1923 – April 26 2009) was a Jewish Greek boxer the Middleweight Champion of Greece (1938) and the All-Balkins Middleweight Champion (1939) who survived the Holocaust by boxing (over 200 bouts) for the entertainment of Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit.
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