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'36 mo. closed end lease. 12.000 miles per year. 15' per mile over. First payment. security deposit of S525. plates and
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the Nazi and knocked him
out."
When the Buchbanms left
the pool, "there were 15 or
20 Nazis waiting for them
with sticks and stones. The
three brothers and many
more Maccabi boys chased
the Nazis to the police sta
tion where the fight was
broken up by the police,"
Mr. Vogelfang explained.
"In every [boxing] exhibi-
tion, we showed that Jewish
boys could fight and win,"
he said.
In 1935, the first team of
Cologne Maccabi boxers
took on a dub from Metz.
All were Nazis, Mr. Vogelfang
recalled. But the Jewish
fighters did not know that
when they entered the ring
with the Star of David
emblazoned on their club
flag.
Maccabi, including Mr.
Vogelfang, then a 24-year-
old featherweight, won sev-
en of the eight bouts. In
1936, the Nazis forbid non-
Jews to box with Jews.
Soon, "all the Maccabi
teams disappeared," he ex-
plained. "One had to live
under these Nazi murderers
to understand the hardships
we had to go through. Then
most athletes left for
Australia, America and Pal-
estine."
Storm troopers seized
many of those who stayed
behind. And the Third Reich
intensified its anti-Jewish e-
dicts.
"There were no more jobs
for Jewish people," so Mr.
Vogelfang and his father
traveled from city to city,
selling textiles at local fairs.
At one such exposition, a
truck load of storm troopers
shut the stalls of Jewish
merchants and took away
those with German pass-
ports. Mr. Vogelfang's Pol-
ish passport meant "they
left me alone. Although they
dosed my store up too.
"Nobody had the nerve to
see the mayor of the city...
so I went to a place filled
with Nazi-uniformed offi-
cials including the mayor.
He gave a 'Heil Hitler' sa-
lute and asked if I was Jew-
ish
"I answered, 'Yes.'
" 'A German or a foreign?'
he asked.
"I answered, 'I am a Pol-
ish Jew'...
"He told me that the next
day I could open my store,
but no German Jews would
be allowed to open. The Pol-
ish Jews were happy that I
had done this for them. [But]
this was the beginning of
when they cancelled all fairs
to Jewish people throughout
Germany."

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Max Buchbaum, the Mac-
cabi middleweight, escaped
the Holocaust by fleeing to
the Far East. Herman and
Heinle Buchbaum died in
Auschwitz, as did Mr. Vogel-
fang's father and 95-year-old
grandfather.
The family had left Ger-
many for Antwerp, Belgium,
in 1938. His mother died in
1941. A year later, his fa-
ther, then 62, went to the
Brussels train station to
search for Leo's missing
brother. But the father was
arrested by the Nazis.
Years later Leo returned
to Antwerp, where he found
his father's name in the city
hall records of those de-
ported to Auschwitz.
In 1938, Mr. Vogelfang's
father, through a cousin in
New York, had secured a
visa for Leo.
Leo paid $10 a month for a
room in Boro Park and
tried to make a living selling
covers. Times were hard, the
climate disagreeable. So Mr.
Vogelfang headed south
with Jack Reiff, one of the
Cologne Maccabi boxers
who also had managed to
get to the United States.
In Wilmington, N.C., Mr.
Vogelfang worked in a scrap
yard for $18 a week.
"It was hard work, but I
wanted to take off extra
weight that I had gained,"
he said. "In three weeks, I
took off 25 pounds "
Then the boxer wanted to
climb back into the ring. He
lived at the YMCA, worked
out every day, and scored a
third-round knockout over a
fighter called Tiger McKay.
"Then I left for Miami
Beach, where I fell in love
with the ocean and decided
this is where I wanted to
stay," Mr. Vogelfang said.
The owner of the Win-
terhaven Hotel let him work
in the rooftop solarium as a
massage therapist and
trainer. Mr. Vogelfang mov-
ed to similar jobs at other
hotels and became a cer-
tified massage therapist in
1941.
One hot summer day in
1944, he went to the beach
for a sunset swim. The only
other person around was a
young woman.
He introduced himself.
She told him her name was
Dorothy and that she was a
massage therapist, trained
in Michigan and preparing
for the Florida examination.
Two months later, they were
married.
"He wouldn't take `no' for
an answer," she recalled
with a laugh, 46 years later.
In the post-World War II
years, the couple ran the
health club and solarium

