Holocaust fighters : boxers, resisters, and avengers
(2021)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.531809/SUSSMAN,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.531809/SUSSMAN,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
©2021
DESCRIPTION

xx, 181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781538139820, 1538139820 :, 1538139820, 9781538139820 40030791963
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction -- 1. Hitler and Boxing -- 2. Men of Unsurpassed Evil -- 3. The Biggest Little Champ: Victor Perez -- 4. The Miracle of Life in a Pair of Fists -- 5. 200 to 1 -- 6. Sinto into the Ring -- 7. Harry Haft: Contender -- 8. Run for Your Life -- 9. Vengeance is Mine -- 10. The Nuremberg Trials -- 11. German Boxing: before, during, and after the War -- 12. Anti-Semitism in Germany and the United States

"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"--

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