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Author:

White, Elizabeth B., author.

Title:

The counterfeit countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust / Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

xxix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mehlberg, Josephine Janina,--1905-1969.
Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
Impostors and imposture--Biography.
Jewish mathematicians--Biography.
Jewish women--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
World War, 1939-1945--Rescue--Rescue--Poland.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Sliwa, Joanna, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-290) and index.

Summary:

Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat.

ISBN:

1982189126
9781982189129

LCCN:

bl2024001437

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