The remarkable story of Janina Mehlberg almost didn’t see the light of day. A Holocaust survivor and a mathematics professor in Chicago, Mehlberg stood out for making her way in an academic field ...

The Nonfiction Author Series returns this winter with four rousing real-life adventures: a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish ...

(JTA) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived in Lublin — ...

(JTA) In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived in Lublin — ...

Historians White and Sliwa (Jewish Childhood in Kraków) deliver a powerful biography of Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg (1905–1969), who posed as a Catholic aristocrat during WWII and ...

In 2024, the United Nations pays tribute to the bravery of all those who stood up to the Nazis, despite the grave risks. The theme guiding Holocaust education and remembrance in 2024 is “Recognizing ...

For sheer chutzpah, it’s hard to beat the story of the Polish professor — a Jewish woman, no less — who created a fake persona as a Polish Christian countess and bamboozled the Nazis into releasing ...