A Jewish gynecologist’s raw memoir of Auschwitz, forced work under Mengele, and women’s fight to survive Nazi medical and camp atrocities.
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A Jewish gynecologist’s raw memoir of Auschwitz, forced work under Mengele, and women’s fight to survive Nazi medical and camp atrocities.
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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 understandin...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Camp sexual violence and coercion; guards’ sexual sadism depicted
Violence & gore
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Graphic mass murder, medical torture, starvation, selections, body horror
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Jewish identity and religious persecution under Nazi genocide
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Nazi racial ideology, genocide, and gendered persecution are central
Self-harm / suicide
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Despair and death wishes; mercy killings of newborns to spare mothers
Abuse & suffering
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Genocide, medical experiments, sexual assault, forced labor, child murder
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