Harry Haft
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Harry Haft (born July 28, 1925 in Bełchatów, Poland [1] as Moses Friedler [2]; † 2007; originally Hertzko Hertzka or detention, and later Herschel prison) was a professional boxer and was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The 14-year-old he witnessed in September 1939, the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Poland. Two years later he was deported as a "Jew" after Auschwitz. Because of his strong physique made him there a SS guards of the boxers, and he had to show fights against the guards' to the death "part. The fighting took place in the Jaworzno concentration camp, which lay in a coal mine north of Auschwitz. After 76 fights in this concentration camp in Jaworzno camp was closed because of the advancing Red Army and sent the prisoners on death marches. Only in April 1945, he managed to escape. On the flight he was on a farm shelter. For fear of being betrayed, he killed the two old people, who gave him accommodation. [1]
In 1948 he emigrated with the help of an uncle in the United States. Here he earned his living as a prizefighter, this time controlled by the Mafia show fights, even against Rocky Marciano. [3] As a professional boxer, he played 22 fights, of which he won 14 [4].
His eldest son, Alan Scott was born in 1950. Harry trusted him to detention, his life story, 2006, with the help of the professional historian John Radzilowski Mike Silver and published in the United States.
In April 2007 he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.