The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

by Joanna Sliwa and Elizabeth B. White

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The "remarkable...inspiring" (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.

World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the astonishing unknown...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1982189126

ISBN13:9781982189129

Release Date:January 2024

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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