16.01.2025 Books, History, Literature

“The Counterfeit Countess” by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa

The untold story of a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in occupied Poland.

The extraordinary life of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg, a Jewish mathematician who saved over 10,000 lives during the Nazi occupation of Poland by posing as a Polish aristocrat.

Working near the Majdanek concentration camp, Dr. Mehlberg risked everything, from delivering aid to supporting the resistance and even securing camp’s prisoner releases.

The book came together as a collaboration between Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, renowned historians and Holocaust experts. It draws on extensive research, as well as Mehlberg’s unpublished memoir. The story also holds a UK connection, as the Mehlbergs’ niece and a distant relative of Janina’s both reside in London.

This unforgettable account of courage and resilience stands alongside Schindler’s List and The Light of Days as a testament to humanity in the darkest times.

The book can be purchased HERE

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A paperback edition will be released in the UK on 16th January 2025

Scheduled Books History Literature

Remembering Katyń Victims – Honouring Memory, Fostering

A series of two events on the 15th & 22nd November, a discussion, film screen and guided walk, to honour the memory of the the Katyń atrocities, 85 years on, and foster dialogue around this signficant event in Polish history.
15 11.2025 22 11.2025 Events, History

Exhibition – Come with us! – Democratic

An exhibition about the story of the struggles and triumphs of Central and Eastern European nations as they regained their freedoms and democratic rights in the wake of the 1989 revolutions.
02 11.2025 08 12.2025 Events, History, Visual arts

Westerplatte – WWII’s Forgotten First Battle –

Learn more about what happened on 1 September 1939 when World War II erupted in the city state of Danzig. The first shots were fired by a WWI German battleship. What followed, called the Battle of Westerplatte, is a heroic story of Polish resistance to the German invaders.
05 10.2025 Events, History