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Madeleine Albright’s Journey to her Jewish Past
July 1, 2012 in Library Corner
By Robin Jacobson.
In January 1997, Madeleine Korbel Albright made history by becoming the first female Secretary of State.
Almost immediately, a startling Washington Post story shattered Secretary Albright’s lifelong belief in her Catholic Czechoslovak heritage. The Post reported that Albright’s parents were Jewish and that three of her grandparents, as well as many other relatives, perished in concentration camps.
In her engrossing memoir, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (2012), Albright confronts these revelations and explores World War II history.
The Infamous Munich Agreement
The early years of Albright’s life in Czechoslovakia were pivotal ones in the history of World War II.
In 1938, the year after Albright was born, Nazi Germany demanded the right to annex part of Czechoslovakia – the Sudetenland – on the pretext of liberating the ethnic Germans w