thebigsisteryouneveraskedfor:Gisella Perl was forced to work as a doctor in Auschwitz concentration
thebigsisteryouneveraskedfor:Gisella Perl was forced to work as a doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp during the holocaust.She was ordered to report ever pregnant women do the physician Dr. Josef Mengele, who would then use the women for cruel experiments (e.g. vivisections) before killing them.She saved hundrets of women by performing abortions on them before their pregnancy was discovered, without having access to basic medical supplies. She became known as the “Angel of Auschwitz”.After being rescued from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp she tried to commit suicide, but survived, recovered and kept working as a gynecologist, delivering more than 3000 babies. -- source link
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