I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

by Gisella Perl

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149858392X
• ISBN13: 9781498583923
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"