Counterfeit Countess, The (eBook)

The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust

Elizabeth White, Joanna Sliwa (Autoren)

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2024
336 Seiten
John Blake (Verlag)
978-1-78946-748-2 (ISBN)

Infos

'Powerful. . . . A heart-wrenching profile of resilience, ingenuity, and heroism.' Publisher's Weekly 'A story of courage, compassion, and cunning so profound that it must be included with the greatest Holocaust literature. Janina Mehlberg is a heroine for the ages.' - Larry Loftis, New York Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker's Daughter The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish woman named Janina Mehlberg who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by their country's Nazi occupiers. 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. Incredibly, she eluded detection, survived the war and eventually emigrated to the USA. Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with prodigious research, , historians and Holocaust experts Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa have uncovered the full story of this extraordinary woman. Unsparing yet inspiring, The Counterfeit Countess is an unforgettable account of selfless courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty, and a major addition to the history of the Holocaust.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: 1939-45 • Aktion Reinhard death squad • 'Countess Janina Suchodolska' • gas chambers • Henryk Mehlberg • Illinois Institute of Technology • Illionois Institute of Technology • Janina Mehlberg • Jewish Resistance • Lublin • Lublin, south-east Poland • Majdanek concentration/extermination camp • mass executions • ' mathematics • Mathematics • Nazi-occupied Poland • Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-45 • persecution and genocide of Slavs • polish home army • reprisals • south-east Poland • The Final Solution • The Holocaust • University of Lwów • unpublished memoir • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• ISBN-10: 1-78946-748-9 / 1789467489
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78946-748-2 / 9781789467482