I was a doctor in Auschwitz

"Gisella Perl's memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. Her story individualizes and, therefore, humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl contributes to our understanding og the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl's memoir significantly includes the Nazis' Roma victims as well as Nazi women guards as perpetrators. It is both graphic in its horrific details and eloquent in its emotional responses. A major historical contribution is Perl's account of being forced to assist Dr. Josef Mengele and using her position to save the lives of other women prisoners. These efforts, including infanticide and abortion, are topics that would remain silenced for decades"--Back cover. Originally published: New York : International Universities Press, 1948. ix, 129 pages ; 23 cm