Elizabeth White, Joanna Sliwa

Counterfeit Countess, The

The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

Janina Mehlberg is a heroine for the ages.' - Larry Loftis, New York Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker's Daughter The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781789467468
• ISBN-10: 1789467462
• Artikelnr.: 69033465

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth White (Author) Dr Elizabeth 'Barry' White recently retired from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she served as historian and as Research Director for the museum's Center for the Prevention of Genocide. Prior to working for the USHMM, Barry spent a career at the US Department of Justice working on investigations and prosecutions of Nazi criminals and other human-rights violators. She served as deputy director and chief historian of the Office of Special Investigations and as deputy chief and chief historian of the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia. Joanna Sliwa (Author) Dr Joanna Sliwa is an historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York, where she also administers academic programmes. She previously worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She has taught Holocaust and Jewish history at Kean University and at Rutgers University and has served as a historical consultant and researcher, including for the PBS film In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler. Her first book, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust won the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded by the Wiener Holocaust Library. She lives in Linden, New Jersey.