Congratulations to HRE USA member Katherine Fennelly on the new book: Family Declassified: Uncovering My Grandfather’s Journey from Spy to Children’s Book Author.
In Family Declassified, social scientist Katherine Fennelly delves into the rationale and consequences of family secrets by studying her grandfather, Francis Kalnay, a high-level spy for the Allied Forces in Europe. In 1974 Francis abandoned his family and fled to Mexico for two decades where he reinvented himself as a children’s book author, an architect, and a gourmand. Until his death at age 93, he never spoke of his Jewish ancestry, his work as a spy, or of the murder of his sister and nephew at the hands of Hungarian Fascists.
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