Nazis Forced Westport Man’s Grandfather to Fight for His Life Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson's HBO Original film The Survivor tells the unmatched, bloodcurdling story of Harry Haft, Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, who was given a choice: annihilate your boxing opponent, or else be heaved into the gas chamber. It also has a SouthCoast connection, too. This blood-and-guts Herculean boxing spectacle was comparable to a gladiator's lethal, final blow and death sentence on his challenger. These regularly scheduled battles were for the entertainment of the Nazi soldiers, while fellow starving prisoners looked on in horror – and it was the...