What is Solomon Perel?
[[File:Sally Perel (2016) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Perel in 2016]] '''Solomon Perel''' (21 April 1925 — 2 February 2023), also '''Shlomo Perel''' or '''Sally Perel''', was a [[Germany|German]]-born [[Israel]]i author and [[motivational speaker]]. He was born in [[Peine]], [[Lower Saxony]], Germany to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the [[Nazis]] by pretending to be an [[German people|ethnic German]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Perel, Solomon | title=Europa Europa| url=https://archive.org/details/europaeuropa00pere_0 | publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc| year=1997| isbn=0-471-17218-9}}</ref> His life story is told in the 1990 movie ''[[Europa Europa]]'' loosely based on his autobiography ''Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon'' (''I Was Hitler Youth Salomon''). ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline|Solomon Perel}} *[http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133d/prevyears/98/EuropaEuropa/EUROPA.HTM College course page with 3 text excerpts and 5 photographs] *[http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/jewishlife/JewishPerelRuth.htm Student paper with summary, discussion and links] {{DEFAULTSORT:Perel, Solomon}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:German Jews]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:Jewish Israeli writers]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:People from Lower Saxony]] [[Category:Israeli autobiographers]] {{bio-stub}}