A Polish 'countess' saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew. | JTA : vimarsana.com

(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.

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