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I was a doctor in Auschwitz
- Title
- I was a doctor in Auschwitz / Gisella Perl ; introduction by Phyllis Lassner and Danny M. Cohen ; afterword by Eva Hoffman.
- Author
- Perl, Gisella
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 129 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Gisella Perl's memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. It was the first memoir by a woman survivor and established the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous"--
- Series Statement
- Lexington studies in Jewish literature
- Subject
- Perl, Gisella
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Romanian
- Jewish women > Poland > Oświęcim > Biography
- Women gynecologists > Poland > Oświęcim > Biography
- Gynecologists > Poland > Oświęcim > Biography
- Women gynecologists > Romania > Biography
- Jews, Romanian > Biography
- Holocaust survivors > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
- Atrocities
- Gynecologists
- Holocaust survivors
- Jewish women
- Jews, Romanian
- Women gynecologists
- Poland > Oświec̜im
- Romania
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Personal narratives.
- Personal narratives – Romanian.
- Note
- Originally published: New York : International Universities Press, 1948.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Dr. Kapezius -- "I want to go with them" -- Arrival at Auschwitz -- Auschwitz : a day within its borders -- Dinner at Auschwitz -- The "beauty parlor" -- Auschwitz treasure-trove : Julika Farkas -- Charlotte Junger -- The value of a piece of string -- Irma Greze -- "Concert" in Auschwitz -- Margarine -- Block VII : the latrine -- Childbirth in Camp C -- The hospital staff -- The story of the fatal handkerchief -- One woman's death -- The bag of diamonds -- The life-saving embryo -- The story of Jeanette -- Liquidation of Camp C -- Farewell to Auschwitz -- Trip to Hamburg -- Hamburg : dege Werke -- Belsen Bergen -- General Gleen Hughes -- Abbé Brand.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4788
- ISBN
- 9781498583923
- 149858392X
- 9781498583947
- 1498583946
- 9781498583930 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018054661
- OCLC
- 1057306774
- Author
- Perl, Gisella, author.
- Title
- I was a doctor in Auschwitz / Gisella Perl ; introduction by Phyllis Lassner and Danny M. Cohen ; afterword by Eva Hoffman.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Lexington studies in Jewish literature
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Added Author
- Lassner, Phyllis, writer of introduction.Cohen, Danny M., writer of introduction.Hoffman, Eva, 1945- writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4788