Under a cruel star: A life in Prague 1941-1968 - Softcover

Kovály, Heda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961469617 ISBN 13: 9780961469610

Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press, 1986

Synopsis

The story of a Czechoslovakian Jew, Heda Kovaly, who was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. She escaped the death camp and made her way back to Prague. But the horrors did not end with the war--her husband became a victim of the Stalinist purges.

About this title

About the Author:

Heda Kovaly was born Heda Bloch in Prague in 1919, the daughter of a prosperous Jewish couple. She survived imprisonment and forced labour under the Nazi regime, during which time both her parents were killed. She escaped from a labour camp in 1945 and returned to her native Prague, where she was re-united with her husband, Rudolf Margolius, who was later executed in a communist show-trial. Heda left Prague for America, where she worked as a translator and later as a librarian at Harvard University. She returned to Prague in 1996 where she later passed away, aged 91, in 2010.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Czech (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0961469617
• ISBN 13: 9780961469610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192