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

Yiddish/English text

Producer: Moshe Waldoks

a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh

The book assembles images Scheinfeld has shot inside and outside locations that once buzzed with life as year-round havens for generations of people

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

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa bilingual Yiddish/English textThe 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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocratdrawing on Mehlbergs own unpublished memoir.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