Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature

Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualises and therefore humanises a victim of mass dehumanisation. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life....