Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assistant in 1971, as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.
They served nearly two years in prison on false charges of espionage for the U.S., and Kati and her older sister were placed in the care of strangers.
Raised a Roman Catholic, she learned much later, and by accident, that her grandparents were Jews, who were murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
[6] Marton studied at Wells College, Aurora, New York, the Sorbonne and the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris.
Marton frequently traveled with Holbrooke during his diplomatic missions in the former Yugoslavia, and in the Middle East.