Gisella Perl
Hungarian gynecologist
Gisella Perl 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. Wikipedia
Born: December 10, 1907, Sighetu Marmației, Romania
Died: December 16, 1988 (age 81 years), Herzliya, Israel
Books: I was a doctor in Auschwitz
Movies: Out of the Ashes
Children: One son (Imre murdered in the Holocaust) and one daughter (Gabriella Krauss Blattman)
Nationality: American, Hungarian, and Romanian
Known for: Holocaust memoir I was a doctor in Auschwitz; OCLC 2355040