The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa bilingual here in English and Yiddish

here in English and Yiddish on facing pages

A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947

Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to help escape within a few weeks

Yiddish/English text

Producer: Moshe Waldoks

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa bilingual here in English and YiddishThe astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberga Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocratdrawing on Mehlbergs own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of Countess Janina Suchodolska, a Jewish woman who rescued more than