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Ben Bril (Barend Bril) was born on 16 July, 1912 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a Dutch boxer. Discover Ben Bril's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July 1912
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death 11 September, 2003
Died Place Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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1912

Barend "Ben" Bril (16 July 1912 – 11 September 2003) was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics in Flyweight boxing, and became an accomplished European boxing referee and judge in the 1960s.

Bril was born in Valkenburgstraat, a poor section of Amsterdam to Jewish parents Abraham Bril and Klaartie Moffie on 16 July 1912.

He was one of six children of a struggling family supported primarily by their father's work as a fisherman.

1928

Bril competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics at age 15 in his home town, finishing fifth in the flyweight class, just out of medal contention.

In his Olympic competition, after a first round bye, he defeated Myles McDonagh of Ireland, before losing to Buddy Lebanon of South Africa.

In his boxing career before the war, beginning in 1928, he won the Dutch Amateur National Championship a total of eight times.

1932

Four years later he was barred from the 1932 Summer Olympics because the Dutch Olympic Committee was led by a member of the Dutch Nazi party.

1935

As a high point in his amateur career, he won a gold medal at the 1935 Maccabiah Games, held in Tel Aviv, Israel.

1936

He later boycotted the 1936 Games in Berlin.

1940

During the German occupation of the Netherlands after 1940, Bril, his wife Celia and son were forced to go into hiding above what was once his family's bakery, but in 1942 were arrested by Nazi sympathiser, Jan Olij a neighbor, whose father, Sam Olij, had boxed together with Bril in the 1928 Olympics.

1942

Around 1942, he was first sent to the Vught Transit Camp, a concentration camp in Southern Holland with deplorable conditions, located Southeast of his home in Amsterdam.

Once deported to Northern Germany and interned at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bril was able to get a job, and then a promotion to the position of Blockälteste, which put him in charge of his barrack.

Looking to survive, he was selected to box in the camp, where he let known German boxers defeat him.

Four of his brothers and a sister died in the camps.

All but one of the siblings were married with children.

Ben, his wife, and his younger brother Herrie survived the war.

1963

From 1963-74, Bril found fame working as a boxing referee for many important matches throughout Europe.

Most of the fights he refereed were title fights for the European Boxing Union, that brought him to matches in Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Paris, London, and throughout Europe.

1964

Bril also refereed Olympic fights, overseeing the matches of George Frazier at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, George Foreman at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and for Teófilo Stevenson a Cuban heavyweight, who competed in boxing in three Summer Olympics from 1972-1980.

1966

Herrie Bril died in Rotterdam on 6 August 1966.

1973

He also refereed boxing matches for the 1973 Maccabiah Games.

Bril and his wife Celia had one child Ab Ben, who lives in Zandvoort with his wife Wilma.

Ab Ben and Wilma have one son, Benno, who also lives in Zandvoort.

1975

Sam Olij was eventually jailed and died in the Netherlands in 1975, while Jan fled to Argentina and died there in 1996.

2003

Bril died on 11 September 2003, at the age of 91 at the Beth Shalom Retirement Home in Amsterdam, and was buried at the Jewish cemetery of Muiderberg.

He is still considered an heroic figure in the Netherlands.

After his death, the Ben Bril Memorial Boxing Gala, which continues today, was inaugurated to honor his memory.

The event features a series of boxing matches and is held every October in Amsterdam.

2006

In October 2006 Bril's biography Ben Bril - Davidsster als Ereteken, by Ed van Opzeeland was published.

The English translation of the title is Ben Bril - Decorated with a Star of David.

The Dutch swimmer Erica Terpstra handed out the first copy of the book to Ben's only son Albert Bril.