Solomon Perel (also Shlomo Perel or Sally Perel) is an author and motivational speaker. He was born 21 April, 1925, in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German. His life story is told in the 1990 film Europa Europa loosely based on his autobiography Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (I Was Hitler Youth Salomon).