Gisella Perl was a Jewish gynecologist who lived in Sighet, Hungary until 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary and deported its Jewish population. She was deported along with her family to Auschwitz where she lost both her husband and only son, as well as her extended family and parents. She was given the task of working as a doctor within the camp, helping the inmates through their disease and discomfort, which she had to do without the bare necessities: antiseptic, … Wikipedia
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One of the Jewish physicians who routinely performed this "service" at Auschwitz, a Hungarian gynecologist named Gisella Perl, described that and worse in her 1948 memoir I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. isurvived.org/2Postings/Polgar_Angela-Vera.html
