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Antony Blinken’s father Donald M. Blinken and stepmother Vera. Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pisar, is a Polish-born American lawyer, author, and Holocaust survivor, who had survived both the Auschwitz and Dachau camps. His mother met Samuel Pisar at a New York soiree in 1968.
When the 39-year-old Antony Blinken got married to a 30-year-old colleague from a D.C.-area middle-class, Irish Catholic family, Evan Ryan, on March 2, 2002, it was a bi-denominational ceremony, which was officiated by both a rabbi and priest.
Dec 12, 2020 · Joe Biden’s Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken made waves in late November with a powerful account of his stepfather’s rescue from a Nazi concentration camp at the hands of a U.S. tank...
His mother was Judith (née Frehm) Blinken and his father was Donald M. Blinken, a co-founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus who later served as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary. [5] [6] [7] His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews. [8]
Evan Ryan and Antony Blinken met in 1995 while working as White House staff members. They married in 2002 in an interfaith ceremony officiated by a rabbi and a priest at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. They have two children, a son born in March 2019 and a daughter born in February 2020. References
Mar 10, 2021 · In 2014, Antony (Tony) Blinken guided the American response to civil unrest in Ukraine, yet the U.S. secretary of state’s roots connecting him to the region run much deeper. The Blinkens of Ukraine Tony Blinken’s great-grandfather, Meir Blinken, was born in 1879 in Pereiaslav, the birthplace of the famous Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, not ...
Jul 21, 2023 · Evan Ryan is a longtime civil servant and wife of Antony Blinken, who is serving as Secretary of State in President Joe Biden’s administration. The couple tied the knot nearly two decades ago...
