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, […]
White
Elizabeth White In 1989, historian Elizabeth ”Barry” White unexpectedly received the unpublished memoir of Dr.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, […]
Sliwa
Joanna Sliwa Dr. Joanna Sliwa is a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history. She works as a historian and administrator of academic programs at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York. The Claims Conference negotiates with the German government for compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors and preserves […]