Salamo Arouch was a Holocaust survivor and Middleweight Champion of Greece and was potrayed by Willem Dafoa in the film Triumph of the Spirit.
Salamo Arouch (Greek:  ; January 1, 1923  April 26, 2009) was a Jewish Greek boxer, the Middleweight Champion of Greece (1938) and the All-Balkans Middleweight Champion (1939), who survived the Holocaust by boxing (over 200 bouts) for the entertainment of German Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe as Arouch. 
