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Documents the author's father's childhood as a Nazi SS unit's mascot, describing how the five-year-old Jewish escapee from a death squad witnessed massacres by his unit and his efforts to hide his Nazi ties in later years.
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Jews, Nonfiction, Juvenile Participation, Fathers and sons, Holocaust survivors, Children, Judenverfolgung, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jewish orphans, Identity, World War, 1939-1945, Biography & Autobiography, Latvian Personal narratives, Childhood and youth, Biography, History, Juvenile, Military participation, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Latvia, biography, World war, 1939-1945, children, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, european, Military and warfare, New York Times reviewed, Orphans, Jewish children, Jews, australiaPeople
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Mascot: The Extraordinary Story of a Jewish Boy and an SS Extermination Squad
2013, Ebury Publishing
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Mascot: One of the Most Astonishing Stories to Emerge from the Second World War
2009, Penguin Random House
in English
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Mascot: The Extraordinary Story of a Jewish Boy and an SS Extermination Squad
2008, Ebury Publishing
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Aug 26, 2008, Plume
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The mascot: the extraordinary story of a young Jewish boy and an SS extermination squad
2007, Rider
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
November 1, 2007, Viking Adult
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The mascot: unraveling the mystery of a Jewish man's Nazi boyhood
2007, Viking
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One man's struggle with memory and prejudice on the way to recovering his pastMark Kurzem was happily ensconced in his academic life at Oxford when his father, Alex, showed up on his doorstep with a terrible secret to tell. When a Nazi death squad raided his village at the outset of World War II, Jewish five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped. After surviving the Russian winter by foraging for food and stealing clothes off dead soldiers, he was discovered by a Nazi-led Latvian police brigade that later became an SS unit. Not knowing he was Jewish, they made him their mascot, dressing the little "corporal" in uniform and toting him from massacre to massacre. Terrified, the resourceful Alex charmed the highest echelons of the Latvian Third Reich, eventually starring in a Nazi propaganda film. When the war ended he was sent to Australia with a family of Latvian refugees.Fearful of being discovered—as either a Jew or a Nazi—Alex kept the secret of his childhood, even from his loving wife and children. But he grew increasingly tormented and became determined to uncover his Jewish roots and the story of his past. Shunned by a local Holocaust organization, he reached out to his son Mark for help in reclaiming his identity. A survival story, a grim fairy-tale, and a psychological drama, this remarkable memoir asks provocative questions about identity, complicity, and forgiveness.
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