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- Title
Gisella Perl: A Jewish Gynecologist in Auschwitz.
- Authors
Peleg, Roni
- Abstract
The article details the story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish gynecologist who was incarcerated in a concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland during World War II. According to Perl, around 30,000 Jewish women stay in the concentration camp where she was imprisoned. The day-to-day life in the concentration camp, according to the doctor, was completely unbearable. Aside from continual threat to their existence, the women of the concentration camp were facing health problems due to having only one latrine. With the number of women who had to use the facility, most of them were forced to soil their clothing which they never remove from their bodies, consequently making a dirty, health-hazardous environment. The conditions of life in the concentration camp strengthened Perl's determination to survive. After Doctor Perl was liberated from the camp, she helped in providing medical services to the survivors of the Holocaust. Finally, Perl immigrated to the United States and worked as a gynecologist in New York.
- Subjects
POLAND; OSWIECIM (Poland); PERL, Gisella; WOMEN gynecologists; WOMEN concentration camp inmates; WORLD War II
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health (15409996), 2005, Vol 14, Issue 7, p587
- ISSN
1540-9996
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jwh.2005.14.587