The Resource The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood, Mark Kurzem
The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood, Mark Kurzem
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- Summary
- A 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- ix, 418 p.
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9780670018260
- Label
- The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood
- Title
- The mascot
- Title remainder
- unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Kurzem
- Title variation
- mascot
- Title variation remainder
- unraveling the mystery of my Jewish fathers Nazi boyhood
- Subject
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- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Latvia | Rīga -- Biography
- Rīga (Latvia) -- Biography
- trueWorld War II -- Children's participation
- Jews -- Latvia -- Identity
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Latvia -- Participation, Juvenile
- Jewish orphans -- Latvia | Rīga -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Law and order | Armed forces personnel
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Holocaust
- trueRiga, Latvia
- Jews -- Australia -- Identity
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II
- trueFathers and sons -- Australia
- trueOrphans -- Riga, Latvia -- Biography
- trueBiographies
- trueJews, Australian -- Identity
- trueKurzem, Alex
- trueHolocaust (1933-1945) -- Children -- Riga, Latvia -- Biography
- trueJews, Latvian -- Identity
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A 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
- Summary
- Documents the author's father's childhood as a Nazi SS unit's mascot, describing how the five-year-old Jewish escapee from a Nazi death squad witnessed massacres by his unit, his efforts to hide his Nazi ties in subsequent years, and his attempt to reclaim his identity
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 223423
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kurzem, Mark
- Dewey number
-
- 940.53/18092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS135.L33
- LC item number
- K87 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kurzem, Alex
- Jewish orphans
- Jewish children in the Holocaust
- World War, 1939-1945
- Holocaust survivors
- Jews
- Jews
- Fathers and sons
- Rīga (Latvia)
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood
- Label
- The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood, Mark Kurzem
- Link
- Note
- Includes index
- Control code
- ocm85162077
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- ix, 418 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670018260
- Lccn
- 2007006664
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)85162077
- Label
- The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood, Mark Kurzem
- Link
- Note
- Includes index
- Control code
- ocm85162077
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- ix, 418 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670018260
- Lccn
- 2007006664
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)85162077
Subject
- trueBiographies
- trueFathers and sons -- Australia
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Holocaust
- trueHolocaust (1933-1945) -- Children -- Riga, Latvia -- Biography
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Latvia | Rīga -- Biography
- Jewish orphans -- Latvia | Rīga -- Biography
- Jews -- Australia -- Identity
- Jews -- Latvia -- Identity
- trueJews, Australian -- Identity
- trueJews, Latvian -- Identity
- trueKurzem, Alex
- trueLife stories -- Law and order | Armed forces personnel
- trueOrphans -- Riga, Latvia -- Biography
- trueRiga, Latvia
- Rīga (Latvia) -- Biography
- trueWorld War II -- Children's participation
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Latvia -- Participation, Juvenile
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