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001 2007006664
003 DLC
005 20090603100655.0
008 070216s2007 nyuab 001 0beng
010 $a 2007006664
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm85162077
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050 00 $aDS135.L33$bK87 2007
082 00 $a940.53/18092$aB$222
100 1 $aKurzem, Mark.
245 14 $aThe mascot :$bunraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood /$cMark Kurzem.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2007.
300 $aix, 418 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aA survival story, a grim fairy-tale, and a psychological drama, this memoir asks provocative questions about identity, complicity, and forgiveness. When a Nazi death squad raided his Latvian village, Jewish five-year-old Alex escaped. After surviving the winter by foraging for food and stealing clothes off dead soldiers, he was discovered by a Latvian 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. When the war ended he was sent to Australia with a family of Latvian refugees. Fearful of discovery--as either a Jew or a Nazi--Alex kept the secret of his childhood, even from his family. But he grew tormented and determined to uncover the story of his past. Shunned by a local Holocaust organization, he reached out to his son Mark for help in reclaiming his identity.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aKurzem, Alex.
650 0 $aJewish orphans$zLatvia$zRīga$vBiography.
650 0 $aJewish children in the Holocaust$zLatvia$zRīga$vBiography.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zLatvia$xParticipation, Juvenile.
650 0 $aHolocaust survivors$zAustralia$vBiography.
650 0 $aJews$zLatvia$xIdentity.
650 0 $aJews$zAustralia$xIdentity.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$zAustralia.
651 0 $aRīga (Latvia)$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006664.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007006664-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007006664-d.html