Hanged at Auschwitz
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A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story shows in knowing…
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The almost unbelievable memoir of a semi-professional Jewish boxer who was saved in Auschwitz by another former boxer.
Sim Kessel tried to escape in 1944, got caught, and was supposed to be hanged on the main square with six other escapees. The campband played march music, thousands of inmates had to watch. The rope broke when SS-guards tried to hang Sim Kessel and he was brought to the hangman of Auschwitz, whose job was to finish him.
His name was Bunker Jakob, inmates said he was the former trainer of the German former world champion boxing heavyweight Max Schmeling. Bunker…
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