Like millions of Jews fleeing destruction at the hands of the Germans, young Solomon Perel - born in Germany - faced almost impossible odds to survive the Holocaust. He and his brother fled Nazi-occupied Poland to what they hoped was safety across the new Soviet frontier, but he subsequently fell into the hands of German forces. Paralyzed by fear and with a courage born of despair, the 16-year-old Perel told soldiers that he was a racial German, concealing his Jewish blood. They believed him, and Perel embarked on a harrowing journey centred around this painful need to assume a false...

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...