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Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 16 December 1988) was a Hungarian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist for them. She worked without the bare necessities for practicing medicine.
Mar 3, 2017 · As both an inmate and head women’s doctor at Auschwitz, Dr. Gisella Perl saved hundreds of lives with her bare hands.
May 27, 2020 · Gisella Perl did not have the luxury of doing no harm. Instead, the Hungarian gynaecologist worked to save lives and minimise the harm she witnessed as a doctor in Auschwitz.
Mar 9, 2016 · Forced to work for the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, Gisella Perl risked all to save as many lives as she could. This is her incredible, heartbreaking story.
In the years since the war, her role as a physician in Auschwitz has led her work to be cast under ethical scrutiny: Perl has been simultaneously considered a murderer by some and a saint by others. This controversy largely revolves around her role as an abortionist within the camp.
Jun 15, 2021 · She was a true hero, risking her life to save the lives of thousands of women, and living through unspeakable horrors herself while giving hope to others in the same circumstances. Dr. Gisella Perl died December 16, 1988, at the age of eighty-one.
Nov 15, 1982 · Thirty-seven years and thousands of safe deliveries later, Dr. Perl, 72 years old, is recognized in Israel, where she now lives, and elsewhere by grateful women who fall to their knees and call...
Before the Nazi invasion of Hungary, Gisella Perl led a rewarding and successful life as physician, wife, and mother. Trained as an obstetrician and gynecologist, she worked alongside her surgeon husband, operating a hospital in Sighet.
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Feb 28, 2019 · I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of...
PERL, Gisella. Nationality: American (originally Romanian: immigrated to the United States, 1947, granted U.S. citizenship). Born: 1907. Family: Married (died); one son (deceased) and one daughter. Career: Gynecologist and director of hospital, Sighet, Hungary (now Romania).
