‘Hitler Youth Salomon’ died at the age of ninety-seven

Sally Perel died at the age of 97 at her home in Israel and her death was announced by the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem on Thursday night, February 2. German-born Sally Perel’s autobiography I was Hitler Youth Salomon achieved international acclaim.

Based on this book, a film was also made on his life in 1990 by director Agneska Holland, which received many international awards.

Sally Perel was born in 1925 in Germany and belonged to the region of Lower Saxony. He was born in Payne, a town near Braunschweig in Lower Saxony, and fled Germany to Poland after the Nazis came to power. Later he had to flee from Poland as well.

Perel was arrested by German troops in 1941 from the territory of the former state of the Soviet Union. They survived the Holocaust because they adopted a pseudo-identity as an ethnic German minority.

After her capture, Sally Perel served for a year in the former Soviet Union on the so-called ‘Eastern Front’, a battlefield by Nazi forces. He was then sent to a ‘Hitler Youth School’ set up for Hitler-loving German youth for education and accommodation.

For them, this threat and fear of being killed remained until the end of the Second World War. ‘I was the Salomon of the Hitler Youth’ is a tribute to such events in his life.

After World War II, Sally Perel left her homeland and settled in Israel. In 1999, he was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, Germany’s highest civilian award for promoting German-Israeli reconciliation.

On the death of Sally Perel or ‘Solomon of the Hitler Youth’, the Chief Minister of the German province of Lower Saxony, Stefan Weil, has especially expressed his condolences to his family and relatives.

Stefan Weil said, “We are grateful for the way Sally Perel recorded the events of her time and her own life, and for her efforts to keep in touch with a new generation to promote understanding.” We are very grateful to them.”

According to the latest data, 150,600 people are still alive in Israel alone, who are eyewitnesses of the Holocaust by the Nazis during the Second World War. More than 1000 of them are over 100 years old.