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kallmekirby's review against another edition
5.0
This book, a tribute in remembrance to all lost during the Holocaust, tore me apart. Dr. Perl is a hero. I have tears streaming down my face.
devansbooklife's review against another edition
5.0
I think this book was amazing. This woman really gave every brutal detail that she encountered. I have read a lot of these memoirs feeling that is important to learn these tragic stories and hear their voices. But this book disturbed me more than any other has. She took the time to tell amazing and inspiring stories about these individuals she met, all who wanted to live, only to perish. She was strong and had to do horrible, unthinkable things to save others. She was and remains a hero. I feel so deeply sorry for her loss and the things that this world allowed to happen. Education is the only way to be free and we must prevent this type of thing from ever happening again.
mackbig's review against another edition
5.0
This book is hard to read, it took me a long time even though it's only 120 pages because of the mental prep needed to take in what you're reading. That said, I think everyone should read this at some point in their life. Gisella Perl writes firsthand accounts of her time in Auschwitz, Hamburg Dege-werke, and Belsen Bergen. From the synopsis, "Her story individualizes and, therefore, humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. ... It is both graphic in its horrific details and eloquent in its emotional responses." Be prepared for your own emotional response when reading it.
rebeccaelizabeth's review against another edition
dark
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I will forever hold the life stories of these people in my heart. Each one was a person with dreams, love and hope. It is their right never to be forgotten.
afreema3's review against another edition
I don't rate books I had to read for school.
I read this for my January Term class on the Holocaust.
While Gisella Perl makes mistakes when it comes to peoples names as well as gets small facts wrong Perl still tells a human story of horror. From her time in Transylvania, to the Ghetto, to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, to Dege-Werke, to finally Bergen Belsen.
Perl tells the story of what women suffered during the Holocaust. Perl tells the stories of having to deliver babies only to kill them moments or days later as well as providing abortions not only for inmates but for guards as well. Perl saved the lives of countless women from the gas chambers and the ovens, and no one can judge her for what she did. There are countless times while reading that I felt sick to my stomach or like all the happiness in the world was gone, but Perl's story and the countless stories of the women she met will never be forgotten. Perl did not have to tell her story, but she did.
I read this for my January Term class on the Holocaust.
While Gisella Perl makes mistakes when it comes to peoples names as well as gets small facts wrong Perl still tells a human story of horror. From her time in Transylvania, to the Ghetto, to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, to Dege-Werke, to finally Bergen Belsen.
Perl tells the story of what women suffered during the Holocaust. Perl tells the stories of having to deliver babies only to kill them moments or days later as well as providing abortions not only for inmates but for guards as well. Perl saved the lives of countless women from the gas chambers and the ovens, and no one can judge her for what she did. There are countless times while reading that I felt sick to my stomach or like all the happiness in the world was gone, but Perl's story and the countless stories of the women she met will never be forgotten. Perl did not have to tell her story, but she did.
melliedm's review against another edition
5.0
A heart-rending first account. Ought to be required reading.