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Naftali Furst attending 71st liberation ceremony at Buchenwald in Weimar, Germany April 2016. Naftali (with his partner Tova here) serves on the International Camp Committee at Buchenwald. He and his late brother, ages 13 and 12, respectively, arrived on a death march and open car journey from Auschwitz on January 23, 1945 and were subsequently among the youths clustered in kinderblock 66. Naftali is one of the principles in the film Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. See if you can spot him at Buchenwald in the pic by Gerard Raphael Algoet taken in mid-April 1945 after liberation which is my cover photo .
Although Mr. Mayer was not a part of my father’s experience in Buchenwald, his death at 94 illustrates why I an in so much pain over my brother Hugh’s effort to destroy my Dad’s heritage before the survivors can see it.
Mayer was a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and parachuted back in seven years later as an American spy, has died. During ‘Operation Greenup’ in February 1945, Mayer posed as a German officer for more than two months in western Austria, sending intelligence on Nazi troop 
movements to his commanders back in the United States in the Office of Strategic Services, which later became the Central Intelligence Agency. Shortly before the end of the war, he was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo. Mayer became one of the subjects of a 2013 documentary, entitled ‘The Real Inglorious Bastards,’ which tells the tale of Operation Greenup.”