Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers

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.

Jeffrey Sussman is the author of 15 nonfiction books. His most recent titles include Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing; Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, and Fortune; Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science; and Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York, all published by Rowman & Littlefield. Sussman is president of Jeffrey Sussman Inc., a marketing and PR firm.