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Salamo Arouch was a Jewish Boxer that survived the Holocaust by boxing and winning over 200 bouts

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Salamo Arouch was a Jewish Boxer that survived the Holocaust by boxing and winning over 200 bouts
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Salamo Arouch (Greek: Σολομόν Αρούχ; 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 Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp.[1] His story was portrayed in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit.[2][3]@Curionic

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