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Gisella Perl

January 15, 2016 in Modern Worthies

Gisella Perl

A Doctor in Auschwitz

"I learned that [pregnant women] were all taken to the research block to be used as guinea pigs, and then two lives would be thrown into the crematorium. I decided that never again would there be a pregnant woman in Auschwitz.''

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