Solomon Perel, Jew who posed as Hitler Youth to survive war, dies at 97

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Solomon Perel, a German Jew who outwitted the Nazis by posing as a member of the Hitler Youth during World War II, an extraordinary story of survival that was dramatized in the 1990 film “Europa Europa,” died Feb. 2 at his home in Givatayim, near Tel Aviv.

, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The cause was complications from pneumonia, said a grandnephew, Amit Brakin.

“By this I mean to say that the road to Josef, the Hitler Youth that I was for four years, was very short and easy. But the way back to the Jew in me, Shlomo, or Solly, was much harder. And it is still not finished.Shlomo Perel was born in Peine, a city in northern Germany near Hanover, on April 21, 1925. His father ran a shoe store, and his mother was a homemaker. They raised Mr.

“The [Germans] surrounded us in an open field and ordered us to stand in a line, and then it was my turn,” Mr. Perel “Europa Europa” depicted one of his constant struggles: Every shower or medical examination, which might have revealed that Mr. Perel was circumcised, was a threat to his survival. He was discovered when an army doctor attempted to rape him in the shower.In the end, the doctor did not turn Mr. Perel in, telling him: “Know that there is also a different kind of Germans.”told Yedioth Ahronoth

“It was another irony,” he said. “A Jewish boy in a Nazi uniform in American captivity. I could have told them the truth, but it was daytime, and I was thinking like my Nazi self. The Americans released us all two days later, as they considered us underage. But, I had to sign a document saying I would not take arms against the Americans. As if I would.”

 

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Oh, my goodness😔

What was he doing in Palestine? Rest in shit

Let's pretend Hitler wasn't a N African w Jewish Ancestry supported by Jews who reduced Catholic population in Germany from 46% in 1930 to 4% in 1945 & killed 3 mil Polish Catholics, 5 mil Ukrainian Catholics and decimated pop of all other Catholic European nations by 20%, eh?

I live close by to a school that has been named after him, and he was a honorary citizen of my home town. May his memory be a blessing.

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Prob vax related

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