About this title: "False Papers" is the astounding story of a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust by living in the open. By sheer chutzpah and bravado, Robert Melson's mother acquired the identity papers that would disguise herself, her husband, and her son for the duration of the war. Always operating under the theory that one needed to be seen in order not to be noticed, the Mendelsohns became not just ordinary Polish Catholics, but the Zamojskis, a Polish family of noble lineage. Armed with their new lives and their new pasts, the Count and Countess Zamojski and their son, Count Bobi, took shelter in ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780252072505ISBN:0252072502
Description: New. False Papers is the story of a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust by living in the open. By sheer chutzpah and bravado, Robert Melson's mother acquired the identity papers that would disguise herself, her husband, and her son for the duration o... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 2000-09-06
ISBN-13:9780252025945ISBN:0252025946
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13:9780252072505ISBN:0252072502
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