Victor (Young) Perez

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There's not a lot out there but there are a few European cards. Here is a RPPC of him, signed on back:




Another Eurocard, Indiana Sport:



Victor "Young" Perez was a flyweight champ of Tunisian descent who lived in France. Come WWII, as a Jew he was betrayed to the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland where he was forced to fight gladiatorial contests for the amusement of the guards. If he won, he was fed. If he lost, he would be executed. He never lost. He was finally murdered during a death march near the end of the war when he shared some bread with a fellow prisoner in defiance of a guard's orders.

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c1930's Anonymous French Chocolate card



c1935 Byrrh (autographed on front)

Perez shares a similar story with Kid Francis (another fighter killed by the Nazis). Francis appears on a few cards as well.



c1930's Anonymous French Chocolate card



c1930's Magniez-Baussart

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Kid Francis

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A 1925 French studio portrait of Francis. The portrait was in the archive of Le Petit Parisien, a newspaper run by the Dupuy family. After WWII Pierre Dupuy, the publisher, was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and while he was acquitted, the paper was destroyed as a result.