The counterfeit countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust / Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa.
Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: xxix, 305 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781982189129 (hardcover)
- 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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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | BIOG 940.53 WHIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001259432 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr.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.
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