Shepsel Rotholz, Jewish featherweight champion of Poland who was originally reported to have been slain in the Polish campaign, was reported today to be alive in Soviet-occupied Poland. Rotholz reportedly was captured by the Germans while serving with the Polish Army but escaped from a concentration camp.
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