Solomon Perel

Solomon Perel was an author and motivational speaker. He was born in Peine, Lower Saxony, to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German. His life story is told in the 1990 film Europa, Europa based on his autobiography Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon.

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