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Dear Members and Friends,
Our next Ognisko Polskie Zoom event will be taking place tomorrow. It will be discussing the controversial Yalta Conference with author Catherine Katz introducing her book: “The Daughters of Yalta”. The historical context will be presented by Professor Norman
Davies and I will be presenting the social aspects.
We look forward to seeing you and as always after the presentations there will be an oppurtunity to mingle via Zoom's online rooms.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Jerzy Kolankiewicz
Chairman
The Daughters of Yalta
Taking place at 7 pm on Thursday 17th June using the Zoom app.
We are now using the registration process for our Zoom events so please use the link below to register.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Much has been written about the historic Yalta Conference in February 1945, when Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met to decide the future of the postwar world. Little, however, is known about the role played behind the scenes by three young women. In “The Daughters
of Yalta” Catherine Grace Katz tells the story through the eyes of Sarah Churchill, Anna Roosevelt and Kathleen Harriman, the daughter of W. Averell Harriman, the US ambassador to the Soviet Union. In the high stakes negotiations on the Black Sea, these women
played a hidden role.
Skillfully written and meticulously researched, it’s an extraordinary work that reveals the human side underlying the politics.
Catherine Grace Katz
Catherine Grace Katz is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in 2014, where she wrote her dissertation on
the origins of modern counterintelligence practices.
After graduating, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the book store in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. The Daughters
of Yalta is her first book.
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