Sima Vaisman
Sima Waserman-Vaisman (* 1903 in Orhei , Bessarabia, today's Moldova ; † 1997 in Paris ) was a doctor, dentist and author.
Life
Vaisman belonged to the Jewish population group of Bessarabia. After completing her medical studies and specialist training as a gynecologist in Bucharest , she emigrated to Paris in the 1930s, where she continued her studies and became a dentist . In 1930 she married Pinkas Vaisman, who died in 1937. She didn't have any children. At the beginning of the Second World War, Sima Vaisman fled to Lyon . In December 1943 she was arrested in Mâcon , was sent to various camps and was finally deported to Auschwitz in January 1944 . As a doctor in the camp, she tried to help the other detainees. With the advance of the Allies she was deported to Ravensbrück and finally experienced the liberation by the Russians in the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . After the liberation by the Red Army , she wrote down her experiences. Back in Paris she worked as a dentist again. Sima Vaisman died in 1997 and was cremated at her request and buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
She never spoke about her experiences in the death camp. The manuscript with her experiences and memories of the time in Auschwitz was not found until 1983. The text (Ger. In Auschwitz ) was then published in full in the magazine Le Monde juif .
literature
- Sima Vaisman: Parmi les cris, un chant s`èleve. Éditions Michel Lafon, Paris 2002.
- Sima Vaisman: In Auschwitz. The report of a Jewish doctor after the liberation. With an afterword by Serge Klarsfeld . Translated from the French by Daniele Raffaele Gambone. Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-940357-08-3 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaisman, Sima |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waserman-Vaisman, Sima |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orhei , Bessarabia, today's Moldova |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1997 |
| Place of death | Paris |