Victor Perez
Victor Perez Perez also Young, maiden name Victor Younki ( born October 18, 1911 in Tunis, † January 22, 1945 in Gliwice ) was a Tunisian Jewish boxers. He was flyweight world champion 1931/1932.
Life
Victor Perez grew up in the Jewish quarter of Tunis, Dar -El Berdgana on together with four siblings. His older brother Benjamin Perez was also a boxer. Both fought for the Maccabi sports club.
Perez moved to Paris in 1927 because he found better training facilities there. In June 1931, he won in Paris as the first boxer from North Africa, the championships and in the same year the World Cup, in which he Frankie Genaro in the 2nd round ko suggested. A year later he lost the title back in a fight against the Englishman Jackie Brown. Then he switched over to the weight class bantamweight, where he in 1934 but lost the world championship match against the Panamanians Al Brown. Until 1938 he continued his career as a professional boxer.
On October 10, 1943, he was deported from the Drancy transit camp to Auschwitz and he was forced by the guards to punch his life. On the death march to the resolution of the concentration camp he was shot.