Harry Haft
Harry Haft Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Forced to fight other…
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Harry Haft
Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944.
Ultimately escaping the camp, Haft's experience left him an embittered and pugnacious young man.Determined to find freedom, Haft traveled to America and began a career as a professional boxer, quickly finding success using his sharp instincts and fierce confidence. Haft details the inhumanity of the "sport" in which he must perform in brutal contests for the officers. In a historic battle, Haft fights in a match with Rocky Marciano, the future