HBO picks up film about boxer who escaped Auschwitz death march
Jewish actor Ben Foster stars as Harry Haft, a Polish Jew who was imprisoned at the concentration camp at 16 but escaped as the Nazis evacuated the camps ahead of the advancing Red Army.
The main gate to Auschwitz with slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei'(photo credit: PIKREPO)ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA