Tad Szulc — journalist (nyt) with roots in the Poland (Second Republic)
Tad Szulc was born in Warsaw on 25 July 1926, in independent Poland, to Seweryn and Janina Szulc. His family emigrated to Brazil in the mid-1930s and he joined them in 1940. He reported for the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro from 1945 and was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1953 to 1972, best known for reporting CIA preparations for the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. He wrote more than twenty books, including biographies of Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II, became a US citizen in 1954 and died in Washington on 21 May 2001.
"Warsaw to Brazil (family mid-1930s, Szulc 1940), then to the United States"
Migration storyTracing the roots — Warsaw (Poland)
The family emigrated to Brazil in the mid-1930s; Szulc joined them in 1940 and moved on to the United States, sponsored by the US ambassador John Cooper Wiley, who was married to his aunt.
Born in Warsaw in 1926, eight years after Poland regained independence. Warsaw had been in the Russian Empire until 1915.
Warsaw (Poland). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.