Madeleine Albright — diplomat with roots in the Russian Empire (in part)
Madeleine Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová, 15 May 1937, Prague; died 23 March 2022) was US Ambassador to the United Nations (1993–1997) and the first female US Secretary of State (1997–2001), under President Bill Clinton. Her family left Czechoslovakia after the 1939 German occupation and again in November 1948, when it settled in the United States. She joined the Georgetown University faculty in 1982.
Tracing the roots — Kyšperk (Bohemia, Austria-Hungary)
Her father Josef Korbel was born in 1909 in Kyšperk, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary), to Czech Jewish parents; her mother Anna Spieglová was born in 1910 to assimilated Jewish parents. Her parents converted to Catholicism in 1941, and she learned of her Jewish ancestry in 1997. Three of her grandparents were killed in the Holocaust. No source consulted records an ancestor in the Russian Empire.
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Kyšperk (Bohemia, Austria-Hungary). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."