Title: The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood /
Authors: Kurzem, Mark.
Publisher: Plume,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Kurzem, Alex,; Jewish orphans Latvia Rīga Biography.; Jewish children in the Holocaust Latvia Rīga Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 Latvia Participation, Juvenile.; Holocaust survivors Australia Biography.; Jews Latvia Identity.; Jews Australia Identity.; Fathers and sons Australia.; Rīga (Latvia) Biography.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: This is all that I know -- The hemorrhage -- Earth tremors -- Interrogated -- The seduction -- The Dzenis family -- The Volhov swamps -- The chocolate soldier -- Judgment -- The ground shifts -- Cast adrift -- Oxford -- Elli -- Home, again -- Escape from Riga -- To freedom -- The affidavit -- No escape -- Stockholm -- Fear -- Alice -- The letter -- Nightmares -- A telegram -- Oxford -- Koidanov -- Connections -- Solomon and Volodya -- Riga -- Carnikava -- The film -- Epilogue.