But Dagmar and Madeleine were separated in 1948 as a result of a communist coup d'etat in Prague. She says she then became the official ward of Albright's father.
After the war, Dagmar discovered she was an orphan and that much of the extended family had died in Nazi camps. They spent the war years together in Britain, with Dagmar serving as a kind of surrogate older sister and babysitter to Madeleine – when they returned to Prague together in 1945, Madeleine was 8 years old, Dagmar 17. The two women owe their lives to the prescience of their parents, who succeeded in spiriting them out of Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. It is one strand of a larger, multi-generational story of a Catholic-Jewish family decimated by Nazism and torn asunder by communism, the twin totalitarian nightmares of the age. The story of Dagmar Simova and Madeleine Korbel Albright is a haunting reflection of some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th century.
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