Barbara Walters was born in 1929[sources 1] (although Walters herself has claimed 1931 in an on-camera interview)[26] in Boston to Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis "Lou" Walters (born Louis Abraham Warmwater).[27][28] Her parents were both Jewish,[29] and descendants of refugees from the former Russian Empire.[30
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