The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670018260 (0670018260)
ASIN: 0670018260
Publish date: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
War,
Jewish,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Historical
I don't know how else to describe this book except that it is "a trip and a half". Those who enjoyed the book The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustwill be totally blown away by this book about a Jewish child among the SS/Nazis and the after effects on his life and that...
This is the unbelievable true story of a man who kept silent about his childhood for 50 years. It is about memory, identity, fear and survival. At 4 or 5 years of age, Alex Kurzem watched his family be killed by Latvian soldiers. He escaped into the woods. Some time later, a group of soldiers "r...