I treated patients with my voice, telling them beautiful stories, telling them that one day they would have birthdays again, one day we would sing again. — Gisella (photo by Yale Gerber) Gisella Perl was a Jewish doctor in Auschwitz. When Nazi doctor Josef Mengele began recruiting pregnant women in the camps for experiments and vivisections, Gisella took action: she performed thousands of secret abortions for other imprisoned Jewish women, saving hundred of lives in the course of her three years at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. "No one will ever know what it meant to me to destroy those babies," she told
A Woman to Know: Gisella Perl
A Woman to Know: Gisella Perl
A Woman to Know: Gisella Perl
I treated patients with my voice, telling them beautiful stories, telling them that one day they would have birthdays again, one day we would sing again. — Gisella (photo by Yale Gerber) Gisella Perl was a Jewish doctor in Auschwitz. When Nazi doctor Josef Mengele began recruiting pregnant women in the camps for experiments and vivisections, Gisella took action: she performed thousands of secret abortions for other imprisoned Jewish women, saving hundred of lives in the course of her three years at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. "No one will ever know what it meant to me to destroy those babies," she told