The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa bilingual a Lower East Side lox

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here in English and Yiddish on facing pages

A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947

Producer: Moshe Waldoks

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa bilingual a Lower East Side loxThe astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberga Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocratdrawing on Mehlbergs own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of Countess Janina Suchodolska, a Jewish woman who rescued more than