Spring 2025 Lectures

April 8, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | FIU-MMC-SIPA-II, room 102
Spies in my Blood: A Polish's Family Secret Fight Against the Nazis & Communists

Alex Storozynski discussed his powerful memoir, Spies In My Blood. This true story follows two brothers raised in New York by World War II exiles, each embarking on a separate mission to infiltrate the Communist secret police in Poland and uncover the truth about their family's legacy of soldiers, spies and assassins. Storozynski recounts his own journey behind the Iron Curtain, where his investigative work on Polish dissidents led to him being declared an "enemy of the state." Spies In My Blood offers a compelling exploration of the untold atrocities of World War II and the Cold War, and the urgent lessons history provides to prevent repeating its darkest moments.

Guest Speaker

ImageAlex Storozynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, award-winning author, filmmaker and former President & Chairman of The Kosciuszko Foundation. He authored The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, which won multiple awards, including the Fraunces Tavern Book Award. Storozynski also directed the PBS documentary Kosciuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time. A former editorial board member at the New York Daily News, his work has appeared in top publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post. Storozynski is a recipient of the Lech Wałęsa Media Award and was decorated with Poland's Gold Cross of Merit and Officer's Cross of Merit.


Moderator:

Tatiana Kostadinova, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations
Director, European & Eurasian Studies Program, FIU

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