The story of Hertzko Haft who was fourteen when the Germans invaded his native Poland. Hertzko and his brothers smuggled food across the new interior borders until Hertzko was shot and wounded. Shortly after that, the Nazis began shipping Jews off to the camps. In attempting to free his older brother, Aria, Hertzko was caught and sent to a work camp. He survives at first by helping the German foreman smuggle goods at a work camp. Later, as things got worse-he had been sent on to Strzelin briefly and then to Auschwitz. In the death camp he does what he has to do to stay alive and to avoid working with the dead. His boxing career begins in the camps, with what amount to fights to the death with other prisoners. Hertzko survives the war this way and fights professionally some time after the war, as well.
A grim tale with dark, foreboding art.
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