Gisella Perl
Gisella Perl | |
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Gisella Perl on the cover of her Auschwitz memoir first published in 1948 | |
| Born | 10 December 1907 |
| Died | 16 December 1988 (aged 81) |
| Occupation | Doctor |
| Known for | Holocaust memoir I was a doctor in Auschwitz OCLC 2355040 |
| Spouse | Ephraim Krauss (murdered in the Holocaust) |
| Children | 2 |
Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 16 December 1988) was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist. She worked without the bare necessities required to practice medicine. Perl survived the Holocaust, emigrated to New York, and became one of the first women to publicize the Holocaust experience in English through her 1948 memoir, I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. She later specialized in infertility treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York and eventually moved with her daughter to live in Herzliya, Israel, where she died.