It is hard to fathom what this man must have felt doing the sport he loved, whilst he was imprisoned in Auschwitz. Every match he boxed was literally a match to the death for either him or his opponent.

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 Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit.