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Czeck Photojournalist Presents Ukrainian Atrocities
Author: MT43 News Staff Reporter
Czeck Photojournalist Presents Ukrainian Atrocities
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Photojournalist and nonprofit organizer Marketa Vorel spoke last Wednesday to a group of twenty at the Community Room. She was in Townsend by way of a long route via her trips to investigate war crimes in Ukraine.
Rancher John Ingalls had read her book “Night Train to Odessa” so he decided to see if she would come to Townsend to speak. She did.
Vorel, born in Czechoslovakia, emigrated to the United States when she was 14. She and her sister and parents escaped her home country by way of a rowboat through the Adriatic Sea, lived in a refugee camp, and then were awarded asylum by the United States government in 1984. They lived in Houston and finally ended up in Anacortes, Washington in 1985. In her early fifties, she has her own law practice, speaks perfect English and is married to a former F18 fighter pilot. Her daughter studies at the University of Montana in Missoula.
When Vorel saw the atrocities happening in Ukraine on the news, she felt compelled to do something. That was 2023.
