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Josef Schwartz - College Term Paper

Josef Schwartz

Name: Josef Schwartz
DOB: September 1[st] 1915
POB: Berlin Germany

The youngest of 3 brothers I was born to Eli and Sarah. My father was an ex solider and a small record business owner and my mother was a factory worker, I attended school a couple blocks from my house with my brother Eli. For me life felt very normal. I did boxing and made the junior Olympic team but I was kicked off for being Jewish.

Life early on was good for my family especialy because on June 28 1919 the treaty of Versailles ended the war and I even though father had a wooden leg because of it, it was good that the fighting was done. One day coming from school some older boys mugged me and left me with a broken ...

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title became Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor this was around early August 1934 when this man got in power life became a living hell. They put my family out of work with kristallnact on November 9 1938 burning father's shop. Then we ended up having to go to a ghetto. One of my friends Sal Amrucho had been shot in the back after he mouthed off to a guard, also Nazi's would call my mother a Jewish whore. This angered me so deeply that I was ready to kill guards but my father saved me with his great words.

In 1940 September 11 my family and I were interred into Dachau after I went my way I never saw my family again and I was tagged prisoner 157289.On the second day one of the higher ranking guards asked who were the boxers, myself and 3 others raised their hands. I got a deal and that was to fight if you win you survive if you lose you are shot in the head, my record was 77-0 with 54ko's. I had light work and decent food compared to the rest. In May 1945 the US liberated ...

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Added: 9/12/2013 05:44:27 PM
Submitted By: jocharles
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 480
Pages: 2

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