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February 28, 2024

How a Fake Jewish Countess Saved Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

Janina Spinner Mehlberg.

Born in 1905 to a well-to-do Polish-speaking Jewish family in what was then Austria, later Poland, and now Ukraine, Janina Spinner studied mathematics and philosophy at a university, married her fellow student Henry Mehlberg, and then began a career as a teacher. With the arrival of the Nazis, the two sought a way to disguise their identities. Shira Li Bartov writes:

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