Garry Yekizian, World Wrestling Champion

Garry Yekizian was an Armenian who survived the Armenian Genocide and managed to overcome not only the pain of the past but also life's hardest trials. He became world wrestling champion on 24 April 1936.

The photograph shows a young man in a sailor's uniform, with a white sailor cap on his head and a neckerchief tied at his neck.

Yekizian's victory symbolises the resilience, willpower and capacity for rebirth of the Armenian people even after the heaviest losses.