The true story of an Auschwitz survivor who reinvents himself as a butcher in racially unstable Brooklyn.

SYNOPSIS:

After four horrific years of inhumanity, and the murder of his entire family by the Nazi’s, ZIGI LEBOSHEVITZ is liberated from the Auschwitz death camp. His amazing story finds him at a post-war displaced person shelter as part of an underworld black market operation that sees him in cahoots with the US military. It is here that he meets his wife, SASHA, and has a son.

His painful memories of the atrocities are relentless. One night he spots a former capo (Nazi collaborator) in a night club and chases him into a wooded area and beats him to death with a tree branch.

Zigi is arrested for the murder and thrown in jail. Using all the money he saved from his illegal business, Zigi bribes his way out of Germany to start a new life in America with his wife and son… dead broke.

Desperate for income and tormented with recurring nightmares, he reinvents himself as a butcher in racially unstable Brooklyn where he’s threatened by gangs and racist cops on a daily basis.

He forms an unlikely alliance with Elijah Stroud, a benevolent, black police officer, who encourages him to hire the gang members and deal with his inner demons. Together they prevail over neo-Nazi’s, riots, and a fatal robbery that changes their lives forever.

For most, this would be the ultimate story of tragedy, irony and fate. For Zigi, it was merely a postscript to a story of shifting into survival mode and never letting down his guard.

The wild ride that is the true-life story of Zigi Leboshevitz, a featured interview in the critically acclaimed documentary “The Boys of Second Street Park,” is wrought with sadness but ends with the redemption of a man’s soul.

I believe that in a world where the daily struggle of racially charged issues, social injustice and universal themes endure, the grit and determination of “Zigi” will appeal to, and inspire, a wide audience.