Nathan Shapow

The Boxer's Story (eBook, ePUB)

Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Death Camps

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than to enjoy his teenage years and become a champion boxer. But the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of the Jews quickly put paid to his dreams. Soon he was to face a different sort of fight. The prize for victory? His life. Escaping certain death with a punch, surviving life on the ropes, Shapow saw his youth disappear in the terror of the Ghettos and the horror of the camps. Cheating almost certain death on a number of occasions, remarkably he survived to forge a new life in what was then British-controlled Palestine. He joined the Underground and quickly became involved in the struggle to create a Jewish state - and found love along the way. Extraordinary and powerful, The Boxer’s Story is a true tale that reads like fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849544269
• Artikelnr.: 38358490

Autorenporträt

Nathan Shapow was born in Riga in the years of the Free Latvian Republic and survived various camps including Birkenau and Stuthoff. After the war he went to Palestine where he fought for the creation of Israel. He died age 96 on 25th May 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements vi
Foreword vii
Chapter 1: Murder in the Ghetto 1
Chapter 2: A Brief Childhood 18
Chapter 3: The Soviet Occupation 33
Chapter 4: The Riga Ghetto 44
Chapter 5: Ducking, Bobbing and Weaving 58
Chapter 6: The Empty Grave 78
Chapter 7: Changing Weight 90
Chapter 8: The Freedom Fighters 98
Chapter 9: The Life and Death of Herr Harr 104
Chapter 10: Spilve 116
Chapter 11: The Cruise to Hell (Stutthof) 125
Chapter 12: Magdeburg and Liberation 141
Chapter 13: The Path to Palestine 159
Chapter 14: Hela 171
Chapter 15: Blood in the Sand 191
Chapter 16: Leaving the Front 212
Chapter 17: The New World 226
Afterword - The Son's Tale 237