![]() With her father, a diplomat, probably facing execution, the family’s odyssey from a Europe on the brink of World War II to safety in America took 10 years and two escapes to London. ![]() ![]() She also discovered that 26 family members, including three grandparents, had been murdered in the Holocaust. She learned that her family was Jewish and that her parents had protectively converted to Roman Catholicism during World War II, raising their children as Catholics without telling them of their Jewish heritage. It was not until after she became secretary of state that she accepted proof that as she had long suspected, her ethnic and religious background was not what she had thought. Under President Bill Clinton, she became the country’s representative to the United Nations (1993-97) and secretary of state (1997-2001), making her the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government at the time. The cause was cancer, her daughter Anne said.Įnveloped by a veil of family secrets hidden from her for most of her life, Albright - whose family settled in Denver - rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs and a White House counselor on national security. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to serve as secretary of state, died on Wednesday in Washington. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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