Gisella Perl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gisella Perl

gynecologist and author

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1907

Place of Birth: Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1988

Profession: physician, gynaecologist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 16 December 1988) was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work.
She survived, emigrated to New York and was one of the first women to publicize these experiences in English in her 1948 memoir I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.
She became a specialist in infertility treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York and eventually moved with her daughter to live in Herzliya, Israel, where she died.