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Ben Foster (“3:10 to Yuma,” “Hell or High Water”) stars in “The Survivor”—a sometimes melancholy and often disturbing biopic of heavyweight boxer Harry Haft. Its HBO Max premiere on Wednesday (8:00 p.m. ET/PT) will coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
Haft, a teenaged Polish Jew, was imprisoned by Nazis and sent to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. There, he survived during the height of World War II by providing ghoulish entertainment to bored officers.