According to the New York Times, in 1949, ‘24-year-old Harry Haft, wearing purple Everlast trunks with a Star of David stitched on, lasted into the third round when a barrage of blows from Rocky Marciano flattened him.’
The incredible journey of boxer Harry Haft, who died in 2007, is described in ’Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano’ by Alan Scott Haft and also in the HBO film ’The Survivor’. Both are equally compelling.