The Counterfeit Countess

In 1989, Nazi hunter and historian Dr. Elizabeth "Barry" White received a manuscript from a stranger.

In the unpublished memoir, Jewish Polish mathematician Janina Mehlberg, who passed away in 1969, claimed to have survived the Shoah by posing as the Countess Janina Suchodolska — and that she'd saved some 10,000 Poles from the Majdanek concentration camp.

A new mother with a busy job, Barry had neither the time nor the Polish language skills to verify the incredible account. But haunted by a sense of responsibility to history, Barry eventually connected with Polish Holocaust expert Dr. Joanna Sliwa and together they discovered the truth of Mehlberg's account — and even more of her heroic deeds.

Published in January of this year, their book "The Counterfeit Countess" brings Janina's story to light in stunning detail...

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