Shlomo Perel, Margot Bettauer Dembo, Solomon Perel: Europa, Europa

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Europa, Europa

Solomon Perel's may be one of the strangest wartime memoirs ever committed to print. At the outbreak of World War II Perel, a young Polish Jew, was interned in a Soviet orphanage. Captured by Wehrmacht soldiers, Perel, fluent in Russian and German, passed himself off as an ethnic German and was adopted by the Nazi unit to act as a translator--and as something of a mascot. Sent to Berlin to... (read more)

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“Probably one of the best stories from WWII I have ever come across. This is the TRUE tale of a German-Jew that is forced to leave Germany due to Kristallnacht. He and his family leave Germany and take residence in Lodz, Poland. During the war in 1939, Solly flees the Germans and takes refuge in the safe reaches of Russia. Well it is only two years later that war follows him to Russia and he is captured by the Germans on their Barbarossa advance. He is spared the execution that so many of...”

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