Dr Gisella Perl I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz Concentration Camp Gynecologist

Description: Trade PB. 8vo. Yale Garber, Tamarac, FL. 1987. 178 pgs. Reprint. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. It is also the first memoir by a woman Holocaust survivor and establishes the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl’s memoir is also significant for its inclusion of the Nazis’ Roma victims as well as in-depth representations of Nazi women guards and other personnel. Unlike many important Holocaust memoirs, Perl’s writing is both graphic in its horrific detail and eloquent in its emotional responses. One of the memoir’s major historical contributions is Perl’s account of being forced to work alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in his infamous so-called clinic and using her position to save the lives of other women prisoners. These efforts including infanticide and abortion, topics that would remain silenced for decades and, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized from all too many Holocaust accounts. Dr Gisella Perl I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz Concentration Camp Gynecologist Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Dr. Gisella Perl Trade PB. 8vo. Yale Garber, Tamarac, FL. 1987. 178 pgs. Reprint. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. It is also the first memoir by a woman Holocaust survivor and establishes the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl’s memoir is also significant for its inclusion of the Nazis’ Roma victims as well as in-depth representations of Nazi women guards and other personnel. Unlike many important Holocaust memoirs, Perl’s writing is both graphic in its horrific detail and eloquent in its emotional responses. One of the memoir’s major historical contributions is Perl’s account of being forced to work alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in his infamous so-called clinic and using her position to save the lives of other women prisoners. These efforts including infanticide and abortion, topics that would remain silenced for decades and, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized from all too many Holocaust accounts. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 1988) was a Jewish gynecologist who lived in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania, until 1944, when the Nazis invaded part of Romania through Hungary and deported its Jewish population to camps. Perl was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp along with her family, where she lost both her husband and her only son as well as her extended family and parents. She was given the task of working as a gynecologist within the women's camp, attending to inmates without bare necessities such as antiseptics, clean wipes, or even running water. She is best known however, for temporarily saving the lives of hundreds of women by aborting their pregnancies, as pregnant women were often beaten and killed or used by Dr. Josef Mengele for vivisections. After leaving Bergen-Belsen, her final Holocaust destination, she found that both her husband and son had died. She tried to poison herself and was sent to recuperate in a convent in France until 1947. Upon her arrival in New York City in March 1947, she was interrogated on suspicion of assisting the Nazi doctors of Auschwitz in carrying out human rights abuses. She was granted U.S. citizenship in 1951. She began work as a gynecologist in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, becoming an specialist in infertility treatment. In June 1948, Gisella Perl published the story of her incarceration at Auschwitz, detailing the horrors she encountered there as an inmate gynecologist. The book was titled I was a doctor in Auschwitz and included Perl's description of operations on young women's breasts without anesthetics, using a knife as her only instrument. The procedure was observed by warden Irma Grese, who derived pleasure from their suffering. Perl's account of these treatments was virtually identical in every detail to the court testimony of Dr. Olga Sulima, an inmate physician at Auschwitz from the Soviet Union, according to historian Bernard Braxton. Likewise, the infirmary encounters with Irma Grese, a 19 year old Aufseherin from Auschwitz were first described not by Perl, but by a Hungarian female prisoner at the Auschwitz, surgical assistant Olga Lengyel, in her 1947 book Five Chimneys, originally published in French. Lengyel was the first survivor to have her testimony published in English, wrote Zoë Waxman. Perl's memoir was one of at least eight similar accounts by female prisoners corroborated by the testimonies of other women. 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