Prague Winter
A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Albright's account of her Czech childhood, exile and the family history she learned only much later.
Albright was seventy-two when she learned that three of her grandparents had been Jewish and had died in the Holocaust. This book is her attempt to reconstruct what her parents did not tell her: the Czechoslovakia of her childhood, Munich, the exile in London, the return, and the coup that sent the family away again. History and family memoir at once.
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David Miliband
Refugees are often talked of as a burden. Madeleine’s story shows that refugees don’t just become patriotic citizens, they become incredibly productive ones as well. Albert Einstein, who founded the IRC, was a refugee to the US. Andy Grove, who founded Intel, was a refugee to the US. Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, was a refugee to the US. Refugees who come here know the value of this country.
Interview · May 2016
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