Europa, Europa

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

Flight to the East. With the Wehrmacht. To Brunswick. Hitler Youth Perjell. Leni. Otto. To Lodz. Into the Ghetto. Riding the Streetcar. War's End. Liberation. From Brunswick to Israel. Epilogue.