ATHLETICS

Jakob Bamberger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, the son of Julius Bamberger, a horse trader and owner of a movie theater that is now a historical building called Das Kleine Kino in Ebersberg. In 1935, the Nazis forced the family to go out of their business; from 1935 to 1939, Jakob worked for the national railway. During Bamberger's boxing career, which began in 1933, he would set foot in the ring over four hundred times. In 1936, he was selected for the Olympic boxing team, but was excluded from competition when the team was purged of being "non-Aryans".
On April 15, 1938, he lost the championship match to Nikolaus Obermauer and became German Vice Champion in the Flyweight class. In 1939, he was runner-up at the European Championship in Dublin. In 1940, he came third in his weight class at the championship in Königsberg.
His family was deported to a concentration camp in 1940. Jakob attempted to escape to Czechoslovakia but was apprehended at the border and subsequently interred at Flossenbürg on January 5, 1942. Bamberger was classified as "antisocial" and assigned the black triangle. On December 14, 1943, he was transferred to Dachau. In Dachau, he was subjected to the Nazi sea trials for periods extending to 18 days. In 1945, he was transferred to Buchenwald. In April of the same year, he was set free when U.S. troops intercepted the Flossenbürg-bound transport on which he was being held.

He lives with his parents and four brothers, in the Jewish quarter of Dar-El Berdagana, at the suburbs of Tunis. He began his career at the age of only 14 and in 1930 won the title national flyweight. He continued to fight until the end of 1938. Perez lived in Paris at the moment when the racial laws were applied: the former champion refuses to sew the yellow star of David that identifies the Jews, as a result he comes to him revoked the French nationality. In September 1943 he was arrested and led into the collection field of Drancy along with another 1,000 prisoners; October 10, 1943 with the "Transport 60" train is deported to Auschwitz. When he is transferred to Monowitz le guards force him to fight for their fun. With advancing of the Red Army, January 18, 1945 Perez leaves the field and begins the "march of the death ", in which thousands of prisoners die for both the hardships and the gusts of miter in the woods. One of them is Victor Perez who will die on January 22, 1945. Five days after the Red Army he will enter Auschwitz.

Salamo was a Greek boxer of Jewish origin. During the war Ariuch was enlisted in the Greek army. In 1943 he was captured together with his entire family and interned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When the camp commanders realized that Arouch and other prisoners were boxers, they began to impose boxing matches for their entertainment, those ones who lost went to the gas chambers. For the duration of his imprisonment he remained undefeated. He was freed from the camp in 1945, during a vain search for his family. then he moved to Tel Aviv, where he resumed his career as a boxer.

On 9th February 1943 Johann Trollmann is detained in the concentration camp of Neuengamme, near Hamburg where he died in February 1943. Trollmann was an extraordinary boxer. A German boxer born to a sinti family. They nicknamed him Rukelie ("tree") for his athletic physique. In the course of a boxing match for the middleweight crown against Adolf Witt, it takes him six rounds to knock down the opponent. For Rukelie it is, the most important and prestigious victory. But Georg Radamm, the Nazi hierarch and president of the German boxers' association Deutscher Faustkämpfe, orders the referees to end the draw. The physical superiority of the Aryan race could not be punched by a gypsy. The public rebels and Rukelie becomes the new German middleweight champion. A few days later Trollmann receives a letter written by the federation. It is no longer the holder of the title.