Albright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, became the US’s top diplomat in 1996, and served during the last four years of Bill Clinton’s administration. She was the highest-ranking woman in the history of US government at that time.
According
to report, Madeleine Albright, who came to the US as a refugee and made history
as the first woman to hold the position of secretary of state, has died of
cancer, her family says. She was 84 years-old.
“We are
heartbroken to announce that Dr Madeleine Albright, the 64th US secretary of
state and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today,” a
statement posted on her Twitter account read.
“The cause
was cancer. She was surrounded by family and friends. We have lost a loving
mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.”
She was a
young girl when her family fled Prague for London after the Nazis took
Czechoslovakia in 1939. She was raised a Catholic, and only decades later
discovered that her parents were Jewish and that several of her family members
had been murdered in the Holocaust.
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