Henry Nissen

Henry Nissen OAM (born Henry Nissenbaum, 15 January 1948 in Belsen) is an Australian amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur represented Australia and won the gold medal at flyweight in the boxing at the 1969 Maccabiah Games, and as a professional won the Australian flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. flyweight to , i.e. featherweight.  He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009.  He currently works as a youth social worker, and is a founder of the Emerald Hill Mission. 

Genealogical information
Henry Nissen was born in the Officers' Headquarters in a Displaced persons camp, outside the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and is the son of a Polish Jewish father and a Ukrainian Jewish mother, who met in the Soviet Union where they had fled to avoid the holocaust.   He is the twin brother of the Australian amateur flyweight champion boxer, Leon Nissen, of the Nissenbaum family, who migrated to Australia in 1949. 

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Image - Henry Nissen
The Fighter, Arnold Zable

Category:1948 births
Category:Naturalised citizens of Australia
Category:Australian male boxers
Category:Australian Jews
Category:Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent
Category:Australian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Category:Bantamweight boxers
Category:Featherweight boxers
Category:Flyweight boxers
Category:Jewish boxers
Category:Living people
Category:Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Australia
Category:People from Celle
Category:Boxers from Melbourne
Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council champions