Harry Haft

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Harry Haft born?July 28, 1925
2. Where was Harry Haft born?Poland
3. What was Harry Haft's job?Competed as a light heavyweight from 1948 to 1949
4. What did Harry Haft have to do in Auschwitz to stay alive?He was forced to fight other prisoners in boxing matches. The SS made the fights a deadly game, and winning gave him a chance to live a little longer.
5. Why were the fights in Auschwitz so dangerous?The SS said the loser would be killed. The winner got a small food ration and a brief pause from the camp. It was a cruel way to decide who lived.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp: A vast complex of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, serving as a primary site for the Holocaust.
Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness and the ability to withstand or recover from adverse conditions.
Trauma: A deeply distressing or disturbing experience that has a lasting psychological impact.