A Woman of Our Times (washingtonpost.com) Katz was a refugee, born in Germany, fleeing the Nazis as a child, then walking with her family away from Nazi-occupied France through the Pyrenees to Spain, then going on to Portugal and, finally, New York.

David Broder has a nice article on our mayor and her career as her term of office ends. Vera Katz has had a very interesting life and career and Broder hits the highpoints...