Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 - Brossura

Kovaly, HedaMargolius

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ISBN 10: 0841913773 ISBN 13: 9780841913776

Casa editrice: Lynne Rienner, 1997

Riassunto

Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010) endured both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and the brutality of Czechoslovakia's postwar Stalinist government. Her husband, after surviving Dachau and Auschwitz and becoming Czechoslovakia's deputy minister of foreign trade, was convicted of conspiracy in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial and then executed. Her clear-eyed memoir of her life during those horrific days is resonant with lyricism, managing somehow to be heartening even as it helps us to understand the political tragedies of the twentieth century.

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L'autore:

Heda Margolius Kovaly recently retired from the Harvard Law School Library and has returned to the Czech Republic.

Product Description:

Heda Margolius Kovaly's steady gaze at the lives caught up in Czechoslovakia's tragic fate under the Nazis and then during the Stalin era illuminates the chaotic life of a nation. Kovaly was deported to concentration camps, escaped from a death march, nearly starved in the post-war years, only to be shattered by her husband's conviction (in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial) and his execution. Resonant with lyricism, this gripping memoir is uplifting even in the midst of horror.

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• Editore: Lynne Rienner
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0841913773
• ISBN 13: 9780841913776
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192