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Why such a swift and sweeping extermination

Teaching about the refugee crisis and one way in which it was managed in the late 1930s will give your students the opportunity to engage with new types of material and answer questions perhaps not yet asked

By Jamie Geller

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust pewter motivationsWorld War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the astonishing unknown story of Countess Janina Suchodolska, a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Polands Nazi occupiers, becoming a heroine for the ages (Larry Loftis, author of The Watchmakers Daughter). Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS