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I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz (Hardcover)
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I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz (Hardcover)
Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
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Gisella Perl's memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of
women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as
powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story
individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass
dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life
before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the
struggle to remake her life. It is also the first memoir by a woman
Holocaust survivor and establishes the model for understanding the
gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as
racially poisonous. Perl's memoir is also significant for its
inclusion of the Nazis' Roma victims as well as in-depth
representations of Nazi women guards and other personnel. Unlike
many important Holocaust memoirs, Perl's writing is both graphic in
its horrific detail and eloquent in its emotional responses. One of
the memoir's major historical contributions is Perl's account of
being forced to work alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in his infamous
so-called clinic and using her position to save the lives of other
women prisoners. These efforts including infanticide and abortion,
topics that would remain silenced for decades and, unfortunately,
continue to be marginalized from all too many Holocaust accounts.
After decades out of print, this new edition will ensure the
crucial place of Perl's testimony on Holocaust memory and
education.
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