Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Counterfeit Countess, The

The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust

Av Elizabeth White, Joanna Sliwa

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We are all too familiar with the stories of Jews who were tortured and killed in concentration camps throughout the Third Reich. But less is known about the persecution of Polish prisoners housed in Majdanek, a concentration and extermination camp on the outskirts of the city of Lublin in south-eastern Poland. The Counterfeit Countess tells this story through the lens of the efforts of one remarkable woman, herself a Jew, who passed as Polish aristocracy, became a lead official in a Polish relief organisation and an officer in the underground resistance movement known as the Polish Home Army. Using the false identity of Countess Janina Suchodolska, Josephine Janina Mehlberg persuaded the SS and other Nazi authorities to give her access to prisoners, bringing them soup, clothing, medicine and tending to their needs, and on many occasions having them freed from the camp. This is her story, based upon her own unpublished account.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-01-25
Mått: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt: 423 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 336
Förlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781789467475

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Elizabeth White (Author) Dr Elizabeth 'Barry' White recently retiredfrom the United States Holocaust MemorialMuseum, where she served as historian and asResearch Director for the museum's Center forthe Prevention of Genocide. Prior to workingfor the USHMM, Barry spent a career at the USDepartment of Justice working on investigationsand prosecutions of Nazi criminals and otherhuman-rights violators. She served as deputydirector and chief historian of the Office ofSpecial Investigations and as deputy chief andchief historian of the Human Rights and SpecialProsecutions Section. She lives in Falls Church,Virginia.Joanna Sliwa (Author) Dr Joanna Sliwa is an historian at the Conferenceon Jewish Material Claims Against Germany(Claims Conference) in New York, where shealso administers academic programmes. Shepreviously worked at the American Jewish JointDistribution Committee, and at the Museumof Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial tothe Holocaust. She has taught Holocaustand Jewish history at Kean University and atRutgers University and has served as a historicalconsultant and researcher, including for the PBSfilm In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story ofIrena Sendler. Her first book, Jewish Childhoodin Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaustwon the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awardedby the Wiener Holocaust Library. She lives inLinden, New Jersey.

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