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The counterfeit countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust

The counterfeit countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust

Book 2024

Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat.