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.

Europa, Europa

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Solomon Perel

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The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film ""An engrossing and memorable tale.""Jewish Book World ""The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange beyond belief."" --The Times (London) International acclaim for Solomon Perel's Europa Europa ""The wrenching memoir of a young man who survived the Holocaust by concealing his Jewish identity and finding unexpected refuge as a member of the Hitler Youth. ""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

Europa, Europa: A Memoir of World War II

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Europa, Europa

Europa, Europa: A Memoir of World War II