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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.
Info autore
Dr Elizabeth 'Barry' White recently retired
from the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, where she served as historian and as
Research Director for the museum's Center for
the Prevention of Genocide. Prior to working
for the USHMM, Barry spent a career at the US
Department of Justice working on investigations
and prosecutions of Nazi criminals and other
human-rights violators. She served as deputy
director and chief historian of the Office of
Special Investigations and as deputy chief and
chief historian of the Human Rights and Special
Prosecutions Section. She lives in Falls Church,
Virginia.
Dr Joanna Sliwa is an historian at the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
(Claims Conference) in New York, where she
also administers academic programmes. She
previously worked at the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, and at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust. She has taught Holocaust
and Jewish history at Kean University and at
Rutgers University and has served as a historical
consultant and researcher, including for the PBS
film In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of
Irena Sendler. Her first book, Jewish Childhood
in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust
won the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded
by the Wiener Holocaust Library. She lives in
Linden, New Jersey.
Riassunto
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.
Prefazione
The previously untold story of the incredible Janina Mehlberg, a Polish-Jewish mathematician who saved the lives of many inmates of the Majdanek concentration camp at Lublin in Poland during the Second World War - which she did by posing as a bogus Polish aristocrat named Countess Janina Suchodolska.
