The Boxer's Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps

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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. 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.

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Nathan Shapow was born in Poland and survived various camps including Birkenau and Stuthoff. After the war he went to Palestine where he fought for the creation of Israel. He lives in the USA with his wife and family.