Joe Schlesinger
| Joe Schlesinger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 11, 1928 Vienna, Austria |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Television journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) |
CBC Television CBC Newsworld |
| Spouse(s) |
current: Judith Levene former: Myra E. Kemmer |
| Children | Leah and Ann |
current: Judith Levene
Joe Schlesinger, CM (born May 11, 1928) is a Canadian television journalist and author.
Schlesinger was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, in 1928. He was raised in Czechoslovakia. When that country was occupied by Germany in 1938, he was sent to England by his parents as part of the kindertransport, organized by Sir Nicholas Winton, that rescued 669 Jewish children. His parents were later killed in the Holocaust. Schlesinger appears in and narrates the 2011 documentary Nicky's Family about Winton and the kindertransport.
Schlesinger pursued a journalism career after the war, first working at the Prague bureau of the Associated Press in 1948. He left Czechoslovakia after its Communist government began arresting journalists. In 1950, he arrived in Canada. After studying at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he reported for the Vancouver Province and the Toronto Star, and edited for UPI in London and the International Herald Tribune in Paris.
Schlesinger joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1966 as executive producer of The National but soon returned to reporting and served as the CBC's foreign correspondent variously in Hong Kong, Paris, Washington and Berlin, reporting on the Vietnam War, and guerrilla wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately the fall of the Iron Curtain including the Velvet Revolution in his homeland of Czechoslovakia.
...
Wikipedia