Alex Kurzem, kept silent about his
holocaust memories for 52 years, not
even telling his wife, he was a Jew. But
finally in 1997, he told his memories as
a five year old to his family
His memoirs were published in a 2002
book entitled The Mascot, which details
Kurzen's holocaust tale:
After his family were killed by the
Nazis he survived for 9 months living in
the forest
He was adopted by the SS as a mascot,
fooled by his Aryan looks
A BBC
News report on Alex
Kurzen states:
"Young Alex saw action on the Russian
front, and was even used by the SS to
lure Jewish people to their deaths.
Outside the cattle trains which carried
victims to the concentration camps, he
handed out chocolate bars to tempt them
in."
