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Solomon Perel

1925 - 2023

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Solomon Perel (also Shlomo Perel or Solly Perel; 21 April 1925 – 2 February 2023) was a German-born Israeli author and motivational speaker. He was born to a German-Jewish family and managed to escape persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German. His life story is told in the 1990 film Europa Europa which was loosely based on his autobiography Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (I Was Hitler Youth Salomon). He also made several visits to various schools to tell his story. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Solomon Perel is the 2,888th most popular writer (down from 2,297th in 2019), the 3,054th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,432nd in 2019) and the 185th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Solomon Perel ranks 2,888 out of 7,302. Before him are Sæmundr fróði, Stefan Heym, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Andrei Sinyavsky, and Frans G. Bengtsson. After him are Petr Chelčický, Bernard Werber, Ubayd Zakani, Robert Garnier, Jean-François de La Harpe, and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Solomon Perel ranks 198. Before him are Eleonora Rossi Drago, Kalle Svensson, Johnny Horton, Roy Medvedev, Theodore Hall, and Andrei Sinyavsky. After him are Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Maureen Stapleton, Nina Lobkovskaya, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, and Zhores Medvedev. Among people deceased in 2023, Solomon Perel ranks 192. Before him are Juraj Jakubisko, Yaakov Ziv, Ita Ever, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, Ingrid Haebler, and Antoni Martí. After him are Ahmad Jamal, Ian Hacking, Klas Lestander, Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, Richard Belzer, and Bray Wyatt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Solomon Perel ranks 3,056 out of 7,253. Before him are Konrad Duden (1829), Stefan Heym (1913), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Alojs Andritzki (1914), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), and Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927). After him are Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Justinus Kerner (1786), Ferdinand Reich (1799), and Manfred Winkelhock (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Solomon Perel ranks 185. Before him are Ludwig Rellstab (1799), Ricarda Huch (1864), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Wolfgang Iser (1926), and Stefan Heym (1913). After him are Richard Dehmel (1863), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), George Mosse (1918), Sebastian Franck (1499), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), and Günter Eich (1907).

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