Holocaust fighters : boxers, resisters, and avengers / Jeffrey Sussman.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021Description: xx, 181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781538139820
- 1538139820
- Boxers, resisters, and avengers
- Holocaust survivors -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Nazi concentration camps -- Germany
- Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Poland -- Oświęcim
- Jewish boxers -- Europe -- Biography
- Nakam (Organization) -- Biography
- Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Biography
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A remarkable portrait of the heroic people who faced the threat of extermination by the Nazis and resisted by any means possible--whether through boxing, exposing the reality of death camps, armed guerrilla attacks, or deadly acts of vengeance.
In Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers , Jeffrey Sussman shares the riveting stories of those who fought back against the Nazis. The lives of five boxers who were forced to fight for their lives while imprisoned in concentration camps are explored in depth, followed by the stories of those who managed to escape captivity and reveal the truth about the death camps. Sussman also depicts in fascinating detail the acts of the Avengers, a military unit that hunted down and killed Nazi war criminals. The final portraits are of the prosecutors who brought the Nazi leaders to justice, those same leaders who watched Jewish and Gypsy boxers beat each other for their own personal entertainment.
Holocaust Fighters is an incredible account of the many ways people resisted Nazi rule, providing moving portrayals of the resilience of the human spirit even in the face of incredible horrors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hitler and Boxing -- Men of Unsurpassed Evil -- The Biggest Little Champ: Victor Perez -- The Miracle of Life in a Pair of Fists -- 200 to 1 -- Sinto Into the Ring -- Harry Haft: Contender -- Run for Your Life -- Vengeance in Mine -- The Nuremberg Trials -- German Boxing: Before, During, and After the War -- :Anti-Semitism in Germany and America.
"This book shares the remarkable stories of boxers who had to fight for their lives while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Alongside their stories are accounts of prisoners who resisted their captors and escaped the camps and those who sought revenge against the Nazis, creating a well-rounded portrait of those who fought against Nazi rule"-- Provided by publisher.