Mehlberg, Janina Spinner.

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Janina Spinner Mehlberg was born in Galicia, Poland, on 01 May 1915. As the Germans invaded Poland, she and her husband fled eastward from Lwow to Lublin where they hid in the home of a Christian woman. The Mehlbergs became involved in an underground movement to supply the prisoners of Majdanek with extra food and medicine. She and her husband survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States. Janina Mehlberg died in May 1969.

From the description of Janina Spinner Mehlberg testimony testimony. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 122456505

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Lublin (Poland)
L'viv (Ukraine)
Majdanek (Poland : Concentration camp)
Ukraine
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Catholics
Hiding
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust survivors
Jews
Resistance movements
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