A horse named after a Polish Jewish woman who helped smuggle gunpowder for a 1944 uprising at Auschwitz finished third in a $250,000 race in New York. Fletcher Clement, a Vietnam veteran and real estate broker who named his horse for Roza Robota, learned about the Sonderkommando revolt in the mid-1980s.
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