Season 1: In the prime of their lives and careers, boxers’ dreams are snatched and replaced with nightmares. Boxing is no longer for money and pride but for bread scraps and survival. The winner lives another day, the loser is killed.
Dive into the extraordinary stories of boxers’ resilience and courage in the face of incomprehensible terrors. Fighting is no longer confined to boxing rings…it now takes place in Nazi occupied streets and concentration camps.
Each episode features a boxer with a different nationality and unique experience. Some will live, some will die. They will all fight to survive.
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Season 1: In the prime of their lives and careers, boxers’ dreams are snatched and replaced with nightmares. Boxing is no longer for money and pride but for bread scraps and survival. The winner lives another day, the loser is killed.
Dive into the extraordinary stories of boxers’ resilience and courage in the face of incomprehensible terrors. Fighting is no longer confined to boxing rings…it now takes place in Nazi occupied streets and concentration camps.
Each episode features a boxer with a different nationality and unique experience. Some will live, some will die. They will all fight to survive.
Victor Perez traveled from the Jewish district of Tunisia to the metropolitan city of Paris to pursue his dream of becoming an internationally known boxer. His dream came true as he won the World Boxing Flyweight Championship. He quickly became a celebrity throughout Europe and would date a famous French actress, forming one of the biggest celebrity couples in the 1930s.
Victor would go from riches to rags with the onset of World War 2. He would endure torturous conditions as a prisoner of the infamous Monowitz concentration camp, a labor sub-camp of Auschwitz built by German pharmaceutical company IG Farben and commanded by SS boxing fanatic, Heinrich Schwarz. Victor would box against other inmates: the winner received extra food rations while the loser was killed. This is a story of bravery and resilience. The story of Victor Perez.
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HOLOCAUST HiSTORIES
Season 1: In the prime of their lives and careers, boxers’ dreams are snatched and replaced with nightmares. Boxing is no longer for money and pride but for bread scraps and survival. The winner lives another day, the loser is killed.
Dive into the extraordinary stories of boxers’ resilience and courage in the face of incomprehensible terrors. Fighting is no longer confined to boxing rings…it now takes place in Nazi occupied streets and concentration camps.
Each episode features a boxer with a different nationality and unique experience. Some will live, some will die. They will all fight to survive.
