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Salamo Arouch
Salamo Arouch (; 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 Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film "Triumph of the Spirit", starring Willem Dafoe as Arouch.
Biography.
Salamo Arouch was born in 1923, in Thessaloniki, Greece,
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See also.
- List of Jewish athletes
- Sports in Israel
External links.
- Salamo Arouch-Daily Telegraph obituary
- Salamo Arouch biography at Box Rec
- Salamo Arouch boxing record at Box Rec