Captain Reifer

Not a traditional Holocaust memoir, Alex Reifer's story will prove to be important for a better understanding of the era. Reifer was victimized by the Holocaust, losing hisparents, grandparents and all four of his brothers. As a Russian intelligence officer he was able to take part in the liberation of his fellow Jews. Later he witnessed its aftermath. Reifer was born in 1921, growing up among the Bovever Hasidim in Oswiecim, Poland, the later location of Auschwitz-Birkenau. When the Nazis invad