03955cam a2200673 4500 1127526617 TxAuBib 20240119120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982189143 1982189142 B0C7RMBGNH Amazon 4fd258cd-07f6-4ed7-b1d4-2c0ff89efece OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9919806 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib White, Elizabeth B. The Counterfeit Countess [Libby] : The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Nazis. World War II. resistance. germany. Auschwitz. Holocaust. aristocracy. concentration camps. inspiring women. Lublin. holocaust survivors. women in history. holocaust stories. Majdanek. gas chambers. herstory. rada. polish underground. occupied poland. schindler's list. Irena's Children. Majdanek concentration camp. aktion reinhard. countess janina suchodolska. henry mehlberg. janina mehlberg. josephine janina mehlberg. pepi spinner. pepi spinner mehlberg. poland during world war ii. the light of days. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 33MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.</b><br /> World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but <i>The Counterfeit Countess</i> is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland's Nazi occupiers.<br /> <br /> Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of <i>Aktion</i> Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Using the identity papers of a Polish aristocrat, she worked as a welfare official while also serving in the Polish resistance. With guile, cajolery, and steely persistence, the "Countess" persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from the Majdanek concentration camp. She won permission to deliver food and medicine—even decorated Christmas trees—for thousands more of the camp's prisoners. At the same time, she personally smuggled supplies and messages to resistance fighters imprisoned at Majdanek, where 63,000 Jews were murdered in gas chambers and shooting pits. Incredibly, she eluded detection, and ultimately survived the war and emigrated to the US.<br /> <br /> Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. They interweave Mehlberg's sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative. Like <i>The Light of Days</i>, <i>Schindler's List</i>, and <i>Irena's Children</i>, <i>The Counterfeit Countess</i> is an unforgettable account of inspiring courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-01-18 20:00:02. Sliwa, Joanna.