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Europa, Europa Book
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Solomon Perel's may be one of the strangest wartime memoirs ever committed to print. At the outbreak of World War II Perel, a young Polish Jew, was interned in a Soviet orphanage. Captured by Wehrmacht soldiers, Perel, fluent in Russian and German, passed himself off as an ethnic German and was adopted by the Nazi unit to act as a translator--and as something of a mascot. Sent to Berlin to an all-male military school, Perel managed against all odds to keep his secret (after the war, he revealed his true identity to his disbelieving comrades-in-arms); in the meantime, his family perished. Now available for the first time in English translation, the full book revels in a sharp sense of irony and an ever-unfolding abundance of improbable episodes.
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"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." â??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." â??Glasgow Herald
"Perel bares his soul to readers in this fascinating, unusual personal narrative of the Holocaust." â??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." â??London Jewish News
"A most remarkable story . . . extraordinary." â??The Australian
"This book will move human hearts." â??Berliner Morgenpost
- 0471283649
- 9780471283645
- Solomon Perel
- 3 March 1999
- John Wiley & Sons
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- New edition
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