Recounts the true story of Salamo Arouch, who was the middleweight boxing champion of the Balkans in the days just before World War II. A Greek Jew, Arouch is sent to Auschwitz, where he fights his ...

Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting fellow prisoners, has died. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting ...