Alan Haft
speaker
102 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Alan Haft’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They had to wear, of course, the yellow star.
They were restricted from a lot of their social activities and confined to what was a ghetto.
Well, my father creates a commotion, helps his brother escape, but they grab him, put his hand in the door, break his hand, and throw him into the firehouse.
And that was how he began his journey through the Holocaust.
Everybody was being evacuated, and they pulled up to his sister's house, and she had just given birth, maybe hours, hours before they got there.
And the soldiers came in, and Harry is watching from the car as they take his sister and put the sister in the back of the truck.
The baby goes onto the pavement and is quickly shot.
My father witnessing that, that was the day that he lost his belief in the existence of God.
From that day forward, there was no such thing.
One day, his partner sees his wife in one of the wagons and breaks down.
And my father breaks down, you know, with him, gives up, does not want to work anymore, goes to the ground.
He's 17, you know, what a horrible life.
So he gave up.
But before he was shot, in walks a German officer who says, I could use that man.
And as Alan says, he was crafty, he was uneducated, but he was super smart.
Schneider shows up again, finds my father, provides him with food, makes him stronger, and he tells him, you're going to be an entertainer.
Well, my father didn't know what entertainer meant.
He's taken to the officers' quarters and there's a makeshift ring.
These are going to be bare-knuckle fights, and they bring him his first opponent.
My father's shocked at what he sees.
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