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- Haft was a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz by bare-knuckle boxing with other prisoners at the behest—and for the entertainment—of SS guards. Haft was protected and provided with food by an officer named Schneider as long as the prisoner continued to fight.
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Apr 28, 2022 · HBO's The Survivor movie is based on his son Alan's 2006 book Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. Several years later, German cartoonist Reinhard Kleist adapted the book into the acclaimed graphic novel The Boxer .
Alan Scott Haft is the oldest son of HARRY HAFT. He graduated from Queens College in 1973, and received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 1978. In 2003, Alan collected the oral history of his father's experiences in concentration camps as a boy, and his experiences as a professional boxer: from Auschwitz to his fight with ...
May 2, 2022 · Alan Scott Haft recalled that in 2007, a few months before his father died of lung cancer at 82, he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Apr 27, 2022 · The film depicts Haft killing Schneider after escaping a harrowing march between camps as Allied soldiers approached. But he did not kill Schneider. He killed a nameless SS man to don his...
Alan Scott Haft was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1950. A first-generation college student, he graduated from Queens College in 1973 and received his J.D. from University of Miami School of Law in 1978. Alan currently lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife Gail.
Apr 20, 2022 · Haft was a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz by bare-knuckle boxing with other prisoners at the behest—and for the entertainment—of SS guards. Haft was protected and provided with food by an officer named Schneider as long as the prisoner continued to fight.
Apr 27, 2022 · Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Haft quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win.
