Harry Haft

Name: Harry Haft
Alias: Herschel Haft
Birth Name: Hertzko Haft
Hometown: Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA
Birthplace: Belchatow, Poland
Died: 2007-11-03 (Age:82)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 175cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Career Review

• Survivor of Auschwitz Death Camp during World War II.
• Claims to have fought in the infamous Auschwitz "Boxing Death Matches" which were held at the camps on Wednesday and Sunday evenings, and included such famous Jewish fighters (who were inmates) Salamo Arouch, Victor (Young) Perez, and Kid Francis.
• Escaped Auschwitz and made his way to the United States where he became a professional boxer.
• Claims in a new novel, Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano, that he was threatened by "three strange men" to throw his 1949 match with Rocky Marciano.

Sources

• Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano, Syracuse University Press, 208 pages, hardcover, by Allan Scott Haft.
• The Ring Boxing Magazine, October 2006, page 11: BOXING BOOKSHELF, by Don Stradley.