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Gisella Perl

1907 - 1988
Medicine; Gynecology
Hungary Hungarian

Personal Information

Born: 1907

Died: 1988

Country of Birth: Hungary

Nationality: Hungarian

Ethnicity: White

Education

Graduated from medical school in Germany

Professional Life

Field of Study: Medicine; Gynecology

Institution/Corporation: Mount Sinai Hospital

Degrees & Memberships: none

Awards & Achievements

Awards: none

Achievements: "survived concentration camps while her husband son parents & extended family did not; years after the war was reunited with her daughter who had been hidden with a Protestant family prior to the family being deported; memoir ""I was a Doctor in Auschwitz "" was 1 of the first published accounts of the horrors of the holocaust in English"

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