Gisella Perl
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. Perl survived the Holocaust, emigrated to New York, and was one of the first women to publicize the Holocaust experience in English, in her 1948 memoir I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. She became a specialist in infertility treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York and eventually moved with her daughter to live in Herzliya, Israel, where she died.
Gisella Perl | |
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Gisella Perl on the cover of her Auschwitz memoir first published in 1948 | |
| Born | 10 December 1907 Máramarossziget, Austria-Hungary (modern day Sighetu Marmației, Romania) |
| Died | 16 December 1988 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Hungarian Jewish; Romanian Jewish |
| Occupation | Doctor |
| Known for | Holocaust memoir I was a doctor in Auschwitz OCLC 2355040 |
| Spouse | Ephraim Krauss (murdered in the Holocaust) |
| Children | One son (Imre murdered in the Holocaust) and one daughter (Gabriella Krauss Blattman) |
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