The Counterfeit Countess by Joanna Sliwa, Elizabeth White

The Counterfeit Countess

Joanna Sliwa, Elizabeth White

305 pages first pub 2024 (view editions) user-added

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This book is ideal for readers seeking an inspiring true story of courage and subterfuge during the Holocaust, blending meticulous historical detail with profound emotional depth.

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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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.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 Holocaus...

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3.96
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informative: 70%

sad: 70%

inspiring: 65%

dark: 60%

emotional: 60%

challenging: 46%

tense: 41%

hopeful: 29%

reflective: 29%

adventurous: 17%


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