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The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust / Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Elizabeth B., author.
- Sliwa, Joanna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mehlberg, Josephine Janina, 1905-1969.
- Mehlberg, Josephine Janina.
- Majdanek (Concentration camp).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Lublin.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Lublin--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Women mathematicians--Poland--Biography.
- Women mathematicians.
- Impostors and imposture--Poland--Biography.
- Impostors and imposture.
- Jewish women--Poland--Biography.
- Jewish women.
- Lublin (Poland)--Biography.
- Lublin (Poland).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simons & Schuster, 2024.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-290) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781982189143 (electronic bk.)
- 1982189142 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032159119
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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