Teddy, the Auschwitz boxer who tried to knock out the Nazis

His name was Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, also known as Teddy, for Polish sportsmen and fans from all over Europe, he was the idol of the ring, Polish bantamweight champion and young promise of European boxing. For the Nazis it was prisoner number 77, as it was tattooed on his arm. Now a film that has just been released, “The champion of Auschwitz”, and a posthumous biography of him written by his daughter, Eleonora Szafran, entitled “Mistrz”, the teacher, recall his heroism, the tragic years in the factory of the death of the Nazi Shoah German in Poland occupied by Berlin and Moscow, then poverty after the war, when the Communist regime was careful not to honor its heroism.