International acclaim for Solomon Perel's Europa Europa
"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 in all kinds of assumptions about identity, responsibility, and guilt." --Glasgow Herald
"Perel bares his soul to readers in this fascinating, unusual personal narrative of the Holocaust." --Book Report
"Many of the experiences of Holocaust survivors are incredible. None is more incredible than the story of a Jewish boy, Solomon Perel, who escaped from Germany to Russia, served with the Wehrmacht in Russia, was adopted by his commanding officer, and transferred to an elite Hitler Youth school." --London Jewish News
"A most remarkable story . . . extraordinary." --The Australian
"This book will move human hearts." --Berliner Morgenpost
Journalist @ProPublica & @BaltimoreBanner. Author of FULFILLMENT & THE CYNIC. Photo by @jmgpix. alec (dot) macgillis (at) propublica (dot) org
A good movie to watch this weekend: "Europa, Europa," in memory of Solomon Perel, on whose extraordinary WWII survival story it is based. He died this week, at 97. https://t.co/BvUhxVsjRx
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By posing as a Hitler Youth — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the acclaimed film “Europa Europa” — Solomon Perel, a German Jew, saved his life during World War II. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.” https://t.co/qzOuJARNer
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By posing as a Hitler Youth — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the acclaimed film “Europa Europa” — Solomon Perel saved his life as a Jew in World War II. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.” https://t.co/3KKoNGQEcA