Tuesday, April 8 from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Join us for lunch and a program. RSVP with an email or a phone call to the church at 703-455-7500.

Dr. Elizabeth “Barry” White will speak about her book The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust.

The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir.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 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland’s Nazi occupiers.

Dr. White recently retired from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she served as historian and as Research Director for the USHMM’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide. Read more about the book and its authors here.