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!

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It's been a long time since I've read the book, but I don't remember Dr. Perl writing much about her first failed suicide attempt in Auschwitz. She just mentioned it in passing.

Don't eva let nobody tell you you ain't strong enough

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