Counterfeit Countess, The

The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess 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.

Janina Mehlberg operated in Lublin, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered...