Salomon "Sally" Perel has passed away on 2 Feb 2023

Question

Good evening all,

while finally processing some older emails I stumbled upon a note about death of Salomon "Sally" Perel, who escaped the Holocaust by pretending to be Volksdeutscher, which lead to him working for German Wehrmacht, becoming a member of Hitlerjugend and doing an apprenticeship at Volkswagen. He later wrote a book about this time of his life.

I simply had to create a profile for this extraordinary person, even though it's not remotely my area of research or expertise.

I think I've also found his brother at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/79582135 , but I didn't manage so far to find anything about their father. I also didn't find the energy to write a proper biography.

Maybe somebody of you dear people reading this want to take over?

Thanks and kind regards from Black Forest

Flo

Answer 1

His parents Azriel and Rebekka were added and connected to his WikiTree profile in March of 2023. Thanks, Melanie and Dunja, for responding to Captain Flo‘s request!

I have created a profile for his brother Isaak.

Comments

Thanks! How did you find this?

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Search for Perel and Halpern at both Familiendatenbank Juden im Deutschen Reich and the Bundesarchiv.

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I meant how you found this post by me

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Oh, I frequently go through the „Unanswered Questions“ list to have a look what I might contribute to …

This question popped up in the „Related Questions“ list at the bottom of another question but I cannot recall which one. Maybe, about Wolfgang Schäuble having passed away? No, it wasn’t that one - sorry, can’t retrace my steps in this instance …

P.S.: Ah, I do remember after all. It was in my feed for Germany. And I did revisit the question about Wolfgang Schäuble‘s passing after all. When you go to it, you will see that the one on Sally Perel is the first on the list of related questions.