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Overview

This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands's award-winning film, Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial contribution to a better understanding of the complexity of life under the Nazis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471172185
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 05/27/1997
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 992,082
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

SOLOMON PEREL is, today, a businessman who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Table of Contents

Flight to the East.
With the Wehrmacht.
To Brunswick.
Hitler Youth Perjell.
Leni.
Otto.
To Lodz.
Into the Ghetto.
Riding the Streetcar.
War's End.
Liberation.
From Brunswick to Israel.
Epilogue.

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"The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange beyond belief."—The Times (London)

"It is a holocaust memoir that is moving, straightforward and quite completely bizarre, unsettling all kinds of assumptions about identity, responsibility, and guilt."—Glasgow Herald

"An engrossing and memorable tale."—Jewish Book World

"This book will move human hearts."—Berliner Morgenpost

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