Victor Perez
Victor Perez , also Young Perez , maiden name Victor Younki (born October 18, 1911 in Tunis , † January 22, 1945 in Gliwice ), was a Tunisian Jewish boxer. He was flyweight world champion in 1931/1932.
Life
Victor Perez grew up in the Jewish quarter of Tunis Dar-El Berdgana with four siblings. His older brother Benjamin Perez was also a boxer. Both fought for the Makkabi sports club .
Perez moved to Paris in 1927 because he found better training opportunities there. In June 1931 he won the championships in Paris as the first boxer from North Africa and in the same year the world championship, in which he knocked Frankie Genaro out in the second round. A year later he lost the title again in a fight against the Englishman Jackie Brown . Then he saddled to the bantamweight weight class, but in which he lost the 1934 world championship fight against the Panamanian Panama Al Brown . He continued his career as a professional boxer until 1938.
On 10 October 1943, he was from the collection camp Drancy to Auschwitz deported . According to the Financial Times , he is said to have fought 140 boxing matches in front of members of the SS guards in Auschwitz and remained undefeated. He was shot on the death march after the concentration camp was dissolved.
Honors
- In 1986 he was entered into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame .
- The Institut National des Sports in Paris named its boxing hall after him.
filming
The life of Perez was filmed in 2013 by Jacques Ouaniche with Brahim Asloum in the lead role under the title Victor "Young" Perez (Eng. The Boxer of Auschwitz , 2015).
literature
- Diethelm Blecking: "Young" Perez - A boxing world champion in Auschwitz , in: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (ed.) Sportsman in the "Century of the Camps". Profiteers, resistors and victims. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt, 2012, pp. 261–264
Web links
- Boxing against death ( Memento from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in: Financial Times Deutschland
- Victor “Young” Perez (1911–1945) on the pages of the Wollheim Memorial
- Box wiki en
- List of professional bouts en
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Perez, Victor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Younki, Victor; Perez, Young |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian boxer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1911 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |
DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1945 |
Place of death | Gliwice |