Victor Young Perez
Victor Young Perez · Sports
Tunisian-French boxer; flyweight world champion 1931; deported to Auschwitz and murdered on the death march in 1945
1911, Tunis, French Tunisia — 1945, near Auschwitz (death march), German-occupied Poland
Tunisia · France
Victor Young Perez is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Tunisian-French boxer; flyweight world champion 1931; deported to Auschwitz and murdered on the death march in 1945
Victor 'Young' Perez was a Tunisian-French boxer who in 1931 became flyweight world champion, one of the youngest world champions of his era and a hero to Jewish communities in France and North Africa. Arrested in occupied France, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was forced to fight for the amusement of the SS and was murdered on the death march in January 1945. His story became a symbol of Jewish athletes destroyed by the Holocaust.
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Source: Wikipedia; International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
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Tunisian-French boxer; flyweight world champion 1931; deported to Auschwitz and murdered on the death march in 1945
Source: Wikipedia; International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
