Harry Haft : Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano /

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Alan Scott Haft provides the firsthand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a Holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haft, Alan Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2020.
Edition:First Paperback Edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Haft, Harry, > 1925-2007
Haft, Harry, > 1925-2007.
Jews.
Jewish boxers.
Holocaust survivors.
Jewish boxers > United States > Biography.
Holocaust survivors > United States > Biography.
Jews > Poland > Bełchatów > Biography.
United States.
Poland > Bełchatów.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Born lucky
  • Occupation
  • Captured
  • Lost hope
  • Beating
  • Jew animal
  • Cannibals
  • Escape
  • Whorehouse
  • Heavyweight champion
  • Uncle Sam
  • Training
  • Harlem
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Career bouts
  • Training for Marciano
  • Fighting rocky
  • Moving on
  • Finding Leah.

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