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The counterfeit countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust

White, Elizabeth B. (Author). Sliwa, Joanna. (Added Author).

Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr.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.

Book  - 2024
940.53 Mehlb-W
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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 > Jews > Rescue > Poland.
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Biographies.
  • ISBN: 9781982189129 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description xxix, 305 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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