Description
Gisella Perl's memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. It was the first memoir by a woman survivor and established the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous.
Author: Gisella Perl
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781498583947
ISBN10: 1498583946
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Author: Gisella Perl
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781498583947
ISBN10: 1498583946
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
About the Author
Phyllis Lassner is professor emerita in the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film. Danny M. Cohen is associate professor of instruction at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies.