Nom canonique: Perel, Solomon
Nom légal: Perel, Solomon
Autres noms: Perel, Solly
Perel, Shlomo
Date de naissance: 1925-04-21
Date de décès: 2023-02-02
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Germany
Israel
Lieu de naissance: Peine, Germany
Lieu du décès: Israel
Lieux de résidence: Lodz, Poland
Grodno, Belarus
Munich, Germany
Professions: author
motivational speaker
memoirist
Holocaust survivor
Courte biographie: Mr. Perel's amazing story of survival was recounted in his 1989 memoir, originally entitled Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (I Was Hitler Youth Salomon). It was adapted into the 1990 historical film Europa Europa. Although he had previously chosen to put his Holocaust memories aside, after the book and film came out, he often toured and gave talks throughout Europe about his wartime experiences. Dutch playwright Carl Slotboom wrote a play based on Mr. Perel's story called Du sollst leben (Dutch: Je zult leven; English: You Shall Live), which premiered in 2002.

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Europa, Europa par Shlomo Perel

I would not recommend this book even though it is very well written. He claims, and there is no reason to doubt it, to speak German, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish, He is obviously highly intelligent. Perel consults a medium concerning his brother and felt the information was factual and trustworthy. Perel has a nice survival story to tell but the moralizing about Axis and Allies gets lost in his defense of adopting Nazi doctrines while secretly trying to avoid his own detection as a Jew. This book felt like a version of Crime and Punishment with Raskolnikov being a murderer trying to rationalize his crime, substituted by Perel being a Nazi trying to rationalize his not trying to sabotage any Nazis. His theme of his mother's final parting wish to "stay alive" motivates his course of action almost everyday. There is nothing wrong with the desire to avoid being a victim of the Third Reich's program of genocide. However, Perel many times says that he enjoys the ability to blend in to survive, although it sounds strange to hear him criticize others for not doing more to stop the Final Solution from being carried out. Perel also says he favored the Communists and Russians even though after the war ended Stalin went on to systematically crush Eastern Europe in a fashion worthy of Hitler. Perel never offers an explanation for the Post-War Communist actions. He states he later became an Israeli and fought in the Arab-Israeli War under Moshe Dayan. The film adaptation might be able to avoid these issues (it did get an Academy Award nomination for adapted screenplay) but I have not seen it. I have always had an interest in WWII memoirs, which is why I eventually picked up this fast read.… (plus d'informations)

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sacredheart25 | 4 autres critiques | Mar 12, 2022 |

Europa Europa par Salomon Perel

1935: un ragazzo ebreo, Sally Perel, fugge con la sua famiglia dalla Germania e dal regime hitleriano e si stabilisce in Polonia. Qualche anno dopo scoppia la guerra e Sally deve di nuovo mettersi in cammino verso Est, insieme a un fratello che presto si separerà da lui. Si ritrova in Russia, solo, viene accolto in un orfanotrofio, e poi arruolato nella gioventù comunista. L’avanzata tedesca in Russia, il collasso dell’Armata Rossa, hanno per il giovane Sally un’inevitabile e terribile conseguenza: cade nelle mani dei nazisti. Potrebbe, a questo punto, iniziare una breve vicenda di ordinario orrore: l’invio in un lager, la morte nelle camere a gas. La storia - vera - di Sally Perel prende invece un itinerario del tutto inaspettato, quasi ad offrire una nuova dimostrazione della straordinaria ricchezza narrativa che si sprigiona da una guerra, da un grande dramma collettivo. Il giovanissimo ebreo, infatti, si dichiara di razza ariana e riesce a convincere i suoi catturatori; diventa la mascotte di un corpo di blindati, e partecipa ad alcuni degli eventi culminanti della campagna russa. Poi, dal fronte orientale viene spedito in Germania e messo in una scuola della Gioventù hitleriana, dove è educato a quello stesso credo che lo vorrebbe annientare, insieme a milioni di altri ebrei... Sino alla fine del conflitto, in una Germania sempre più devastata, Sally reciterà disperatamente la sua parte in uniforme nazista, e [’eccellente interpretazione, insieme alla fortuna, gli assicurerà la salvezza. Europa Europa è un documento eccezionale sugli anni della guerra e dell’olocausto; ed è, pur nel suo carattere di testimonianza diretta, una storia densissima, un libro di straordinaria tensione narrativa. (fonte: amazon)… (plus d'informations)

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MemorialeSardoShoah | 4 autres critiques | May 3, 2020 |

Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon. par Sally Perel

I got to know the author when he gave a speech about his life in my highschool.
If I hadn't heard him speak in person about it, I wouldn't believe the experiences he made in the Third Reich, so incredible is his struggle for survival as a Jew in a Nazi society!
Highly recommendable!

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borhap | 4 autres critiques | Aug 27, 2013 |

Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon. par Sally Perel

Sally Perel Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon. Diese Biografie mag ich so sehr, weil Sally Perel eine Vorlesung in unserer Schule gegeben hatte und wir danach Zeit hatten mit ihm zu reden. Sally Perel glaubt nicht mehr an Gott, also er bekennt sich nicht mehr zum Judentum. Nachdem was sovielen Juden angetan wurde, ist es nachvollziehbar, dass er sein Vertrauen an Gott verloren hat. Sally Perel ist einer der wenigen Juden (hier: Ex-Juden), die sich für die Rechte der Palästinenser einsetzen.

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preikestolen1 | 4 autres critiques | Mar 22, 2011 |

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