Jake Warren
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158 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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So he begins again in America.
But for Harry, America was not a clean beginning.
It was another place where he had to survive.
You're listening to Harry Haft's Unspeakable Fight from the BBC World Service with me, Jake Warren.
We're looking at Harry Haft's extraordinary life and I'm speaking to his son, Alan Haft, as he reckons with his father's legacy.
In 1940s America, boxing was extremely popular, second only to baseball.
Jeffrey Sussman is an author and wrote a book about some of the people forced to box during the Holocaust, including Harry Haft.
Harry arrived in America in 1948.
He was 22 years old.
He was staying in New Jersey with his Uncle Sam.
Yes, an actual Uncle Sam, but didn't have a job.
Harry didn't have money, he didn't speak English very well, and he couldn't read or write.
Even though Harry had escaped Europe, anti-Semitism was still rampant in America.
Jewish people were limited to certain careers, schools, and even neighborhoods.
So Harry returned to the one thing he knew, boxing.
Harry was a raw fighter.
He didn't take direction well and wasn't technically proficient.
Even though he had trainers, Harry lacked the ability to follow instruction or the instinct for self-preservation.
And yet, he won his first ten fights.
Even after being taken from his family, being subjected to five years of horror in the concentration camps, watching people killed in front of him may have crushed any belief in God, but it did not make Harry any less proud of being Jewish.
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