{"product_id":"counterfeit-countess-the-elizabeth-white","title":"Counterfeit Countess, The (Elizabeth White)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but \u003ci\u003eThe Counterfeit Countess\u003c\/i\u003e is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish woman named Janina Mehlberg who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by their country's Nazi occupiers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanina Mehlberg operated in Lublin, 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, clothing and medicine 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, survived the war and eventually emigrated to the USA. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story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 extraordinary woman. They interweave Mehlberg's sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative. Unsparing yet inspiring, \u003ci\u003eThe Counterfeit Countess \u003c\/i\u003eis an unforgettable account of selfless courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty, and a major addition to the history of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr Elizabeth 'Barry' White recently retired\u003cbr\u003efrom the United States Holocaust Memorial\u003cbr\u003eMuseum, where she served as historian and as\u003cbr\u003eResearch Director for the museum's Center for\u003cbr\u003ethe Prevention of Genocide. Prior to working\u003cbr\u003efor the USHMM, Barry spent a career at the US\u003cbr\u003eDepartment of Justice working on investigations\u003cbr\u003eand prosecutions of Nazi criminals and other\u003cbr\u003ehuman-rights violators. She served as deputy\u003cbr\u003edirector and chief historian of the Office of\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Investigations and as deputy chief and\u003cbr\u003echief historian of the Human Rights and Special\u003cbr\u003eProsecutions Section. She lives in Falls Church,\u003cbr\u003eVirginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr Joanna Sliwa is an historian at the Conference\u003cbr\u003eon Jewish Material Claims Against Germany\u003cbr\u003e(Claims Conference) in New York, where she\u003cbr\u003ealso administers academic programmes. She\u003cbr\u003epreviously worked at the American Jewish Joint\u003cbr\u003eDistribution Committee, and at the Museum\u003cbr\u003eof Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to\u003cbr\u003ethe Holocaust. She has taught Holocaust\u003cbr\u003eand Jewish history at Kean University and at\u003cbr\u003eRutgers University and has served as a historical\u003cbr\u003econsultant and researcher, including for the PBS\u003cbr\u003efilm In the \u003ci\u003eName of Their Mothers: The Story of\u003cbr\u003eIrena Sendle\u003c\/i\u003er. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eJewish Childhood\u003cbr\u003ein Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewon the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded\u003cbr\u003eby the Wiener Holocaust Library. She lives in\u003cbr\u003eLinden, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65781678047581,"sku":"K097785445","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9778544500001A.jpg?v=1788325806","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/counterfeit-countess-the-elizabeth-white","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}