
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


As a child, Alex Kurzem faced a choice: be killed or join the killers.
After escaping the massacre that killed his family during the Holocaust, he’s found by the enemy and taken in as one of their own – becoming a Jewish boy masquerading as a Nazi soldier. He’d live with this false identity for so long, he no longer remembered who he was before.
This is the story Alex would tell the world decades later, but could a story so unbelievable be true? Host Dan Goldberg finds out.
By CBC4.1
372372 ratings
As a child, Alex Kurzem faced a choice: be killed or join the killers.
After escaping the massacre that killed his family during the Holocaust, he’s found by the enemy and taken in as one of their own – becoming a Jewish boy masquerading as a Nazi soldier. He’d live with this false identity for so long, he no longer remembered who he was before.
This is the story Alex would tell the world decades later, but could a story so unbelievable be true? Host Dan Goldberg finds out.

26 Listeners

28,206 Listeners

757 Listeners

47 Listeners

29 Listeners

49 Listeners

2,045 Listeners

775 Listeners

10,262 Listeners

734 Listeners

270 Listeners

503 Listeners

194 Listeners

4,523 Listeners

4,379 Listeners

269 Listeners

1,737 Listeners

27 Listeners

3,381 Listeners

3,520 Listeners

342 Listeners

64 Listeners

227 Listeners

1,795 Listeners

831 Listeners

177 Listeners

1,012 Listeners

155 Listeners

131 Listeners

191 Listeners

18 Listeners

268 Listeners

7,324 Listeners

481 Listeners