Birth Name: Carl Martin Froch
Place of Birth: Nottingham, England
Date of Birth: 2 July, 1977
Ethnicity:
*Polish, some German (father)
*English (mother)
Carl Froch is a British boxer. He is the son of Carol (Douglas) and Frank Froch.
His father is of Polish, and also some German, descent. His mother has English ancestry.
Carl’s paternal grandparents were Wojciech Froch and Alexandra Budzik. Wojciech was from Katowice, Poland, and had some degree of German ancestry. Alexandra was from Tarnów, Poland.
Carl’s maternal grandparents were Oswald Douglas and Edith.
Numerous web sites (including, embarrassingly [for them], The Guardian newspaper) state that Carl’s father’s family were Polish Jews. This claim is completely false. His paternal grandparents were of non-Jewish background. In his book autobiography, The Cobra: My Story (2011), Carl recounts how his paternal grandfather was made to serve in the German army during World War II, because of his own German ancestry.
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