I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

Author:   Gisella Perl ,  Phyllis Lassner ,  Danny M. Cohen ,  Eva Hoffman
Publisher:   Lexington Books
ISBN:  

9781498583947


Pages:   140
Publication Date:   20 March 2019
Format:   Paperback
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I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz


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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 and establishes the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl’s memoir is also significant for its inclusion of the Nazis’ Roma victims as well as in-depth representations of Nazi women guards and other personnel. Unlike many important Holocaust memoirs, Perl’s writing is both graphic in its horrific detail and eloquent in its emotional responses. One of the memoir’s major historical contributions is Perl’s account of being forced to work alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in his infamous so-called clinic and using her position to save the lives of other women prisoners. These efforts including infanticide and abortion, topics that would remain silenced for decades and, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized from all too many Holocaust accounts. After decades out of print, this new edition will ensure the crucial place of Perl’s testimony on Holocaust memory and education.

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Author:   Gisella Perl ,  Phyllis Lassner ,  Danny M. Cohen ,  Eva Hoffman
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.218kg
ISBN:  

9781498583947


ISBN 10:   1498583946
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   20 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Phyllis Lassner and Danny M. Cohen Foreword Dr. Kapezius “I Want to Go with Them…” Arrival at Auschwitz Auschwitz—an 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 Afterword by Eva Hoffman About the Editors

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Lassner and Cohen deserve praise and gratitude for pursuing and bringing to fruition the republication of I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. One of the first published by an Auschwitz survivor, Perl's memoir not only recounts the horrors of existence in Auschwitz, which included grave moral challenges and efforts to resist, but also engages many of the questions that have shaped the field of Holocaust Studies. Lassner and Cohen serve the reader well with their outstanding introduction that contextualizes Perl's memoir in the history and the historiography of the Holocaust, particularly as related to understandings of women's experiences. They also chose wisely to end the new edition with a poignant essay by Eva Hoffman. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this new edition for years to come. -- Sarah M. Cushman, director of Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University


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Phyllis Lassner is professor emerita in the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film. Danny M. Cohen is associate professor of instruction at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies.

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