- Summary
- Once in a while there comes along a story so powerful and so emotive that it makes you re-think your own values. This is the story of Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, born in Riga, with nothing more on his mind than becoming a world-renowned boxer. However, the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of the Jews put paid to his boxing dreams. He was to fight a different sort of fight, one for survival. The prize? His life. Seeing his youth disappear in the squalor of the ghettos and the horror of the camps, Nathan fell back on his previous existence to sustain him. The years of training, the running, the speed work, the three-round amateur fights in the gym, the street fights in Riga and the sheer competitive nature he developed saved him on more than one occasion, especially when he was forced to box for his life against a top German fighter in a concentration camp. THE BOXER'S STORY is an extraordinary and powerful true story that reads like a thriller. It will deeply affect everyone who reads it.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Shapow, Nathan, 1921-
- Published
- London : The Robson Press, 2012
- Locale
- Latvia
China
- Contents
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ch. 1 Murder in the Ghetto
ch. 2 A Brief Childhood
ch. 3 The Soviet Occupation
ch. 4 The Riga Ghetto
ch. 5 Ducking, Bobbing and Weaving
ch. 6 The Empty Grave
ch. 7 Changing Weight
ch. 8 The Freedom Fighters
ch. 9 The Life and Death of Herr Harr
ch. 10 Spilve
ch. 11 The Cruise to Hell (Stutthof)
ch. 12 Magdeburg and Liberation
ch. 13 The Path to Palestine
ch. 14 Hela
ch. 15 Blood in the Sand
ch. 16 Leaving the Front
ch. 17 The New World.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Harris, Bob, 1944-
- Notes
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ch. 1 Murder in the Ghetto -- ch. 2 A Brief Childhood -- ch. 3 The Soviet Occupation -- ch. 4 The Riga Ghetto -- ch. 5 Ducking, Bobbing and Weaving -- ch. 6 The Empty Grave -- ch. 7 Changing Weight -- ch. 8 The Freedom Fighters -- ch. 9 The Life and Death of Herr Harr -- ch. 10 Spilve -- ch. 11 The Cruise to Hell (Stutthof) -- ch. 12 Magdeburg and Liberation -- ch. 13 The Path to Palestine -- ch. 14 Hela -- ch. 15 Blood in the Sand -- ch. 16 Leaving the Front -- ch. 17 The New World.
