The aim for this page is to be a reference point for those who wish to learn more about boxers victimized during the Holocaust. The intention is that this post will expand as new information becomes known.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines victims of the Shoah as: "Any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who were refugees or were in hiding." This broad definition will be used for this post.
Jewish Boxers
| • Lazzaro Anticoli | • Salamo Arouch |
| • Willi Besmanoff | • Bennie Bluhm |
| • Benny Bluhm | • Isaac Brander |
| • Ben Bril | • Moise Bouquillon |
| • Theo Bouquillon | • Francesco "Kid Francis" Buonaugurio |
| • Heinie Buchbaum | • Herman Buchbaum |
| • Max Buchbaum | • Gerrit Cohen |
| • Robert Cohen | • Joop Cosman |
| • Harry de Wolf | • Pacifico Di Consiglio |
| • Leone Efrati | • Barend Groenteman |
| • Harry Haft | • Shmuel "Samuel" Kenigswein |
| • Jonas Kessler | • Sim Kessel |
| • Noah Klieger | • David Kropveld |
| • Sam Lewko | • Lina Lisauer |
| • Gunter Loewinski | • Imre Mandi |
| • Adam Paluch | • Benjamin "Kid" Perez |
| • Victor "Young" Perez | • Jacko Razon |
| • Abraham Rosenberg | • Szepsl Rotholc |
| • Harry "Kid" Ruckenstein | • Bram Sanders |
| • Leen Sanders | • Meijer Sanders |
| • Salem Schott | • Eric Seelig |
| • Nathan Shapow | • N.N. Shneidman |
| • Klaus Silber | • Seigfried "Siggie Lander" Stadtlander |
| • Harry Stein | • Settimio "Terry" Terracina |
| • Dino Uziel | • Juda van der Velde |
| • Leo Vogelfang | • Sander Waterman |
| • David Lard Zilverberg | • Leo Zurel |
Polish Boxers
Antoni Czortek
Zygmunt Małecki
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
Andrzej Rablin
Kazimierz Szelest
Zygmunt Małecki
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
Andrzej Rablin
Kazimierz Szelest
Romani Boxers
Johann Trollmann
Communist Boxers
Erwin Volkmar
Soviet Boxers
Andrei Borzenko
Books
Holocaust Fighters By Jeffrey Sussman
Harry Haft By Alan Scott Haft
The Boxer's Story By Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis By Jud Nirenberg
The Boxing Medal By N. Schneidman
Hanged in Auschwitz By Sam Kessel
K.O. Auschwitz By José Ignacio Pérez (in Spanish)
Quatre boules de cuir ou l’étrange destin de Young Perez, champion du monde de boxe By André Nahum (in French)
Duello nel ghetto By Amedeo Guerrazzi Osti and Maurizio Molinari (in Italian)
The Fighter of Auschwitz By Erik Brouwer
Deutscher Meister By Stephanie Bart (in German)
Movies
The Survivor (2021)
The Champion
Journalistic Articles
Abram, Len. "Boxing for Time." Boxing Over Broadway.
David, Ariel "A Real-life Inglorious Basterd: The Jewish Boxer Who Battled Nazis." Haaretz.
de Klein, Dirk. "Behind the Star." History of Sorts.
Ganor, Tomer. "The Jewish boxing champ killed in Auschwitz." YNetNews.
Jakubek, Anna Maria. "Champion of Auschwitz." The Times of Israel.
Kentish, Portia. "The Boxer of Auschwitz." Emerging Europe.
Newland, Christina. "Gypsy in the Ring." Vice.
Piattelli, Ariana. "Addio ad Ada Di Segni." La Stampa (in Italian).
Smith, Martin. "Rukeli 'Johan' Trollman." Dream Deferred.
Starkman, Harvey. "The Final Victory of Leone Efrati." The Hamilton Spectator.
Van Thyne, Nico. "The Boxer Leen Sanders... My Dad's Hero." Once a Knight...
Winters, Paul. "80 years of Freedom." Flashscore.
"Veteran Jewish Boxing Champions in Israel." The Palestine Post.
"In Love and Auschwitz." Sydney Jewish Museum.
Academic Articles
Finder, Gabriel N. "The Politics of Retribution in Post-War Warsaw" in Warsaw: the Jewish Metropolis
Levis Sullam, Simon. "Uncovering the Italian Muscle Jew." Quest. October, 2017.
Paluch, Adam. "The Story of Adam Paluch." in Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust
Paulsson, Gunnar S. "The Hidden Jews of Warsaw." in How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader.
Wolski, Pawel. "Excessive Masculinity: Boxing Narratives in Holocaust Literature."
The Jewish Boxing Blog Articles
Videos
Podcasts
If you have relevant information (particularly names of boxers) please email me (link near the top of the site) or post a comment below. Comments will be moderated and likely deleted after reviewed.
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