THE COUNTERFEIT COUNTESS: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust, Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
NOW IN PAPERBACK! “Powerful. . . . A heart-wrenching profile of resilience, ingenuity, and heroism.” ― Publishers Weekly “A fine delineation of personal heroism amid an era of utter human depravity.” ― Kirkus Reviews “Holocaust historians White and Sliwa masterfully piece together the previously untold story of a Jewish mathematician who, during the Nazi occupation of Poland, […]
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Elizabeth White In 1989, historian Elizabeth ”Barry” White unexpectedly received the unpublished memoir of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg, a math professor at Illinois Institute of Technology who had died twenty years earlier. The memoir contained a startling revelation: Mehlberg, a Jew, had survived the Holocaust by posing as the Christian Countess Janina Suchodolska in Lublin, […]