Meet Harry Haft, the man who survived Auschwitz and went on to fight Rocky Marciano

John Wight
5 min readSep 19, 2022
Harry Haft

Harry Haft is not a name many boxing fans will recognise — which is a shame because this is a man who endured more than anyone who’s ever laced up the gloves, who quite literally had to fight to survive.

Born Herschel Haft in Belchatow, Poland, 1925, Haft was Jewish and during the German occupation of his country he was…

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