Failed Suicide ???
So the Director never resolved Dr Perl's attempt at suicide (she swallowed some sort of liquid in a glass ampule). That's pretty sloppy film making.
In real life after leaving Bergen-Belsen, her final Holocaust destination, she found that both her husband and son had died. She then tried to poison herself and was sent to recuperate in a convent in France until 1947. It was then that she immigrated to the US (March 1947)
She was a remarkable woman!