Tad Szulc — journalist (nyt) with roots in the Russian Empire
Tad Szulc was a Polish-American journalist born in Warsaw (Russian Empire) who became one of The New York Times's most distinguished foreign correspondents. He covered the Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro's Cuba, and Cold War Latin America, and later wrote acclaimed biographies of Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II.
Tracing the roots — Warsaw
Born in Warsaw (Russian Empire) in 1926 to a Jewish family, Szulc fled to Brazil during WWII before making his way to the United States. His reporting from Latin America — shaped by his own experience as a refugee from the Russian Empire's successor states — brought a personal understanding of displacement and power to his journalism.
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Warsaw. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.