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Personally: Toy Soldier
Introducing Toy Soldier
3 mins
Feb. 13, 2025

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.

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