# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-kurzem
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:35.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-kurzem"
name: "Alex Kurzem"
slug: "alex-kurzem"
description: "Alex (Uldis) Kurzem was an Australian pensioner originally from the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and a centre-point of a long-standing controversy regarding his Holocaust memoir which has led to a financial windfall in the early 21st century. He was the subject of a television documentary and a best-selling book by his son, translated into 13 languages; both entitled The Mascot."
tagline: "Australian jew (1936–2022)"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1936"
deathDate: "2022-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.88
  momentum:             10
  historical:           6.443493333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Алекс Курзем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD"
    title: "Ільля Гальперын"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kurzem"
    title: "Alex Kurzem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kurzem"
    title: "Alex Kurzem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%96%D7%9D"
    title: "אלכס קורזם"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Galperin"
    title: "Ilja Galperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kurzem"
    title: "Alex Kurzem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726615"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump