Tag: The Counterfeit Countess
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The Counterfeit Countess, book review: The Jew who saved thousands of Poles by posing as a Catholic
"The Counterfeit Countess" recounts the remarkable story of Janina Mehlberg, a Jewish mathematician who impersonated a Polish countess to save over 10,000 mainly Polish camp inmates during World War II.
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A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew.
Janina Mehlberg, a Jewish mathematician, disguised herself as a Polish countess named Janina Suchodolska during the Holocaust.