Harry Haft

Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, HarryHaft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-oldPolish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced tofight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment ofSS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on hisability to fight and win. Haft details the inhumanity of the sport inwhich he must perform in brutal contests for the officers. Ultimatelyescaping the camp, Haft's experience left him an embittered andpugnacious young man