The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa

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

Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa

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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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir.World War II and the Holocaust h...

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