Book description
Poland,1941. Sixteen-year-old Hertzko Haft is sent to Auschwitz. Separated from his family and his fiancee, he draws a will to survive from the thought of seeing them again. His ability to survive, though, comes from something else - a unique talent. When Haft is forced to fight against other inmates…
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This is a Holocaust story that no one knows about.
This graphic novel is a brutal depiction of his father’s survival through boxing in a Nazi concentration camp and his life that followed as an immigrant to the United States. This Holocaust story of how his father’s boxing skills kept him alive in Auschwitz is part of a larger story of boxers who were rounded up and forced into a perverted form of the sport for the entertainment of the Nazis.
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