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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He sees a skeleton coming towards him, a half-dead Jew.
who volunteered to fight because his only way of surviving was to get the extra bread at the end of the match.
Well, the rules for the fight, Schneider tells my father, are it's the last man that's standing.
But really, it was for the officers to be entertained by watching a Jew who was not starved kill another Jew with his bare hands.
Although my father felt shock and horror...
He turned back and he looked at Schneider and Schneider said to him, well, if you don't do it, then which would you prefer, a bullet or the gas?
My father had no choice.
At age 17, 18, if he wanted to live, he had to kill the other man.
When he would discuss what he did...
Much later, he would call it that his selection to be a boxer and have his life saved was a privilege.
He didn't seem to have any guilt about what he had to do to stay alive.
Harry does survive.
The amazing thing about my father's story is that he survived five different slave labor and extermination camps in the six years that he was there.
No one survived five years.
No one survived three months in a concentration camp.
By three months, you were worked to death or starved.
My father had the Star of David, the Jewish star, on his trunks to identify that he was a Jewish boxer.
How ironic is that?
When the Germans took over, he had to wear the yellow Star of David to identify being Jews for the Nazis.
And now in the United States, in boxing, he's wearing the Star of David to identify being Jewish.
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