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Mar. 23rd, 2022
In fact, she might have been the first high-ranking female U.S. government official period! She served as Sec. State under President Bill Clinton 1997 to 2001 but was previously the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.
Albright, aged 84, was taken by cancer at her home surrounded by family. Born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague in 1937, her father was a diplomat and friend to Czechoslovakia's president. The family and government fled to England ahead of the invading Germans when she was a little girl.
Side note: she wrote an amazing autobiography called Prague Winter or Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948, I read it three years ago and heartily recommend it. I really should look for some of her other books, she had an excellent writing style.
While in London, the family became Catholics - Madeline did not know that she was born a Jew until many, MANY years later when she was on a diplomatic trip back to her homeland and encountered some distant relatives who started telling her stories of other relatives lost to the death camps.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/madeline-albright-first-secretary-of-state-dead-1325760/
Albright, aged 84, was taken by cancer at her home surrounded by family. Born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague in 1937, her father was a diplomat and friend to Czechoslovakia's president. The family and government fled to England ahead of the invading Germans when she was a little girl.
Side note: she wrote an amazing autobiography called Prague Winter or Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948, I read it three years ago and heartily recommend it. I really should look for some of her other books, she had an excellent writing style.
While in London, the family became Catholics - Madeline did not know that she was born a Jew until many, MANY years later when she was on a diplomatic trip back to her homeland and encountered some distant relatives who started telling her stories of other relatives lost to the death camps.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/madeline-albright-first-secretary-of-state-dead-1325760/