The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
by White, Elizabeth B. (Author), Sliwa, Joanna (Author)
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Summary
"The astonishing 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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.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... Full description
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Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects
Mehlberg, Josephine Janina, > 1905-1969.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Lublin.
Countesses > Poland > Biography.
Impostors and imposture > Poland > Biography.
Jewish women > Poland > Biography.
Women mathematicians > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Poland > Lublin > Biography.