Word: gisella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your story about Dr. Gisella Perl, who aborted women prisoners in Nazi camps to save them from the gas chambers [TIME, Sept. 20], you omitted [a point] of great importance. Many of these women became pregnant because they were raped by the prison guards, who then had to conceal their violation of their own "racial purity" laws by killing the defenseless women. It is easy for shocked moralists, safe in this country, to condemn Dr. Perl. One wonders how nobly moral they would be if their own wives & daughters were in a similar situation...
...Gisella Perl is a pleasant, well-dressed Rumanian doctor who does not look her 43 years.* Nor does her face betray her fearful experiences. Before the Allies liberated her from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, her parents, husband and son had been killed by the Germans. And-according to some theologians-Dr. Perl has killed about 3,000 people herself. They were of undetermined sex: unborn children...
...page book, Editor-translator Gisella Selden-Goth finecombed the German shelves in New York libraries and the Library of Congress. Said she: "If I had been able to use the libraries in Germany there would have been a great deal more. [If the Mendelssohn correspondence] . . . shared the fate of other spiritual products of Jewish origin ... no complete edition of his letters can ever be published...
Soon he was guest-acting under Max Reinhardt in Vienna and Berlin, appeared in one UFA film. In 1927 Adolph Zukor signed up Pola Negri and Lukas as a potential team. When Lukas arrived in the U.S. with his bride (small, blonde Gisella Benes, to whom he is still married), he was required to post a $500 bond. It was not until five years later that he collected his bond from the Government. Lukas thought the $500 was an admission...