LEADER 05080cam a2200613 i 4500001 293007 005 20240622101039.0 008 240123t20242024nyuabf b 001 0beng d 010 2023290670 019 1415631477141772630414225958191424629743 020 9781982189129 |q(hardcover) 020 1982189126 |q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)on1384411761 035 293007 042 lccopycat 043 e-pl--- 049 LHMA 040 YDX |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dIOU |dY$5 |dCCPLG |dIUO |dHQD |dGCV |dJFL |dCLE |dIMT |dQS3 |dZGR |dCPP |dIAD |dTXSCH |dHF9 |dYDX |dOCLCO |dIGP |dIND |dLHM 050 00 DS134.72.M44 |bW45 2024 090 DS134.72.M438 |bW45 2024 100 1 White, Elizabeth B., |eauthor. 245 14 The counterfeit Countess : |bthe Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust / |cElizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa. 246 30 Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust 250 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 264 1 New York : |bSimon & Schuster, |c2024. 264 4 |c©2024 300 xxix, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 380 Book |2lcgft 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index. 505 0 Before -- The beginning of the end -- Terror comes to Lwów -- Transformation -- The dystopian utopia -- Annihilation -- "Better to die a soldier" -- Frozen cargo -- The Polish question -- Majdanek -- Janina's lists -- Rescue -- Soup with a side of hope -- Harvest of death -- Christmas at Majdanek -- Cat and mouse -- The plot -- The end approaches -- Blood on the stairs -- The end -- Flight -- A new beginning -- Epilogue: "Janina's story" -- Coda. 520 "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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. 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 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland's Nazi occupiers. Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion 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. 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 The Light of Days, Schindler's List, and Irena's Children, The Counterfeit Countess is an unforgettable account of inspiring courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Mehlberg, Josephine Janina, |d1905-1969. 610 20 Majdanek (Concentration camp) 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland |zLublin. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland |zLublin |vBiography. 650 0 Women mathematicians |zPoland |vBiography. 650 0 Impostors and imposture |zPoland |vBiography. 650 0 Jewish women |zPoland |vBiography. 651 0 Lublin (Poland) |vBiography. 650 6 Holocauste, 1939-1945 |0(CaQQLa)201-0011801 |zPologne |zLublin. |0(CaQQLa)201-0493647 650 6 Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 |xMouvements de résistance |0(CaQQLa)201-0056525 |zPologne |zLublin |0(CaQQLa)201-0493647 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 Mathématiciennes |0(CaQQLa)201-0086843 |zPologne |0(CaQQLa)201-0494059 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 Juives |0(CaQQLa)201-0013829 |zPologne |0(CaQQLa)201-0494059 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 0 Jewish women |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJews |xRescue. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Biographies. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 700 1 Sliwa, Joanna, |eauthor. 852 0 |bstacks |hDS134.72.M438 |iW45 2024