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…J in her direction and smile. But then again, she seemed to be smiling at everybody. The journalists in the room knew Ms. Albright as an articulate spokeswoman for the world's sole remaining superpower. Her official biography was a classic emigre story: Czech native flees Communist dictatorship and enjoys success in the United States as a diplomat. In con- trast, Ms. Simova knew Ms. Albright as a figure in a far more intimate and tragic famil...…
…Wrenching PARTINGS, Broken CoNNEcTioNs Korbel helped organize radio broadcasts via the British Broadcasting Corp. to occupied Czechoslovakia. There were four broadcasts a day, including a half-hour news program at 6:30 every evening that was widely listened to in Czechoslovakia. "He had good journalistic instincts," says Ota Ornest, one of the editors on the Czech language service and now a well-known theater director in Prague. "He knew ever...…
…records. His daughter Margareta — Madeleine's aunt and Dagmar Simova's mother — died the following Feb- ruary, one of many victims of a typhoid epidemic that swept the newly created ghetto. The internal administration of the ghetto was the responsibility of "Jewish elders." They also were required to select groups of 1,000 people at a time for transporta- H tion to Auschwitz. An air of menace hung over these • transports. Most people refused t...…
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…Ann Arbor author Josh Henkin talks about his first novel. w JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER 4 nn Arbor resident Joshua Henkin is the author of StVim- ming Across the Hudson (G. P. Putnam's Sons), a new novel about a young Jewish man coming to terms with his child- hood, his connection to Ju- daism and the fact that he is adopted. Raised in a modem Orthodox lifestyle which both he and his brother have rejected, the protagonist is shaken when his ...…
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