Madeleine Albright didn't learn both her parents were Jews until the age of 59
(Born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 - March 23, 2022)
The first female US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, has passed away at the age of 84.
Just weeks before her appointment as Secretary of State under President Clinton, Albright revealed in an interview that she had recently discovered both of her parents were raised Jewish in her native Czechoslovakia. Albright was raised Catholic after he parents converted just four years after she was born. Neither her mother or her father revealed to any of her siblings that they'd been brought up Jewish.
According to a statement from her family, Ms Albright died from cancer.