A five-part podcast, based on Mint’s award-winning feature documentary ‘The Jewish Nazi?’, has been released.
Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ‘Toy Soldier’ takes listeners on a deep dive into the staggering story of Melbourne’s Alex Kurzem who, as a child during WWII, faced a hideous 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 – a Jewish boy masquerading as a Nazi toy soldier.
He’d lived 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?
Mint’s Dan Goldberg, the director of the feature documentary, finds out.
Toy Soldier is part of CBC’s ‘Personally’ series and can be found on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6vT2CQdO8VnSFvoB3yrg8w
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/personally-toy-soldier/id1651894021
CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1340-run-hide-repeat
