Nathan Shapow
with Bob Harris
The Boxer’s Story
Fighting for my life in the Nazi camps
The Robson Press ( 2012)
Latvian teenage boxer, Nathan Shapow, saw his youth disappear among the terrors of the Jewish ghettos and the Nazi concentration camps. He defied almost certain death on numerous occasions through his quick-thinking and his prowess as a boxer. He even killed one of his Nazi tormentors, managing to escape detection. Remarkably, he survived the war and contrived to enter what was then British-controlled Palestine. There he was reunited with the girl he had fallen for in one of the camps. Still married in their nineties, they live happily in the USA.