I praise this book because it takes guts to let it everything out. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This book has kept me on the edge of my sit from the beginning to the very end. While fleeing eastward from German-occupied Poland, he fell into German hands. --This text refers to an alternate, 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. A great book and an unbelievable story. . Solomon became a Russian school boy for the next few years and did very well. His strong will to live kept him going while living a lie and almost becoming another person. In this inspiration for the 1990 Golden Globe-winning film, Europa, Europa, appearing now in English translation, Perel details his remarkable story of survival as a Jewish boy during World War II. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. By hiding in plain sight he was able to suvibe and tell his story. Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018. If you liked the movie, you will love this book. ""It is a Holocaust memoir that is moving, straightforward, and quite completely bizarre, unsettling in all kinds of assumptions about identity, responsibility, and guilt."" This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands's award-winning film, Europa, Europa. Passionnant et déroutant sur les totalitarismes. Very well-written and moving. "It is a Holocaust memoir that is moving, straightforward, and quite completely bizarre, unsettling in all kinds of assumptions about identity, responsibility, and guilt." Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Please try again. Worth a read but not great writing. It was decided that Solomon and his older brother Isaac would try to escape to Russia. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The lonely boy, who took the name Jupp, found himself bonding with Nazi friends and learning--even teaching--loathsome Nazi propaganda about Jews. . There's a problem loading this menu right now. Perel, now an Israeli businessman, survived the Holocaust in a most improbable way. --Glasgow Herald, ""Perel bares his soul to readers in this fascinating, unusual personal narrative of the Holocaust."" How can anyone, of any background, read Holocaust memoirs and not become a strong Zionist? 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."" Solomon Perl wondered if his story was worth telling but it is like no other of a Jewish survival in WW2. Amazingly enough, the camp commander took a liking to young Solomon and offered to adopt him. -London Jewish News"A most remarkable story . Many close calls and interesting twists of luck or fate. At the outbreak of World War II Perel, a young Polish Jew, was interned in a Soviet orphanage. In a suicidal break from his usual self-control, he unburdened himself of his terrible secret to a couple of Germans. Having caught the movie that was based on this book, I tracked down this English version of Solomon Perel's autobiography. Does this book contain inappropriate content? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. this one almost sounds like it is made up, Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2014. He was shaken from any confidence in his lucky angel whenever his circumcision or absent birth records came to the fore. Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2020, I hesitate to say this because the topic is fascinating and the book us a fast read but I find the author's style shallow and unsatisfying. 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." Recommended only for large public libraries or Holocaust collections. --Berliner Morgenpost. extraordinary."" On the perilous way from one ideological extreme to another, Perel was rounded up by attacking Wehrmacht troops, passed himself off as an ethnic German, and was adopted as the mascot of a mechanized unit. For the best writing on the Holocaust, read Primo Levi, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2017. We get to see many Nazis and Jews react after the war with disbelief when they discover that Solly/Jupp was, indeed, Jewish.