Under a cruel star

Description:

Kovaly was deported to concentration camps, escaped from a death march, nearly starved in the postwar 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.

subjects: Antisemitism,  Biography,  History,  Jews,  Komunistická strana Československa,  Politics and government,  Purges,  Kovaly, heda,  Czechoslovakia, history,  Jews, biography,  Kovály, heda,  Db2211.k68 a6 1997,  943.71/203,  Politique et gouvernement,  Communism

People: Heda Kovály,  Rudolf Margolius (1913-1952)

Places: Czech Republic,  Czechoslovakia,  Prague,  Prague (Czech Republic)

Times: 1938-1945,  1945-1992,  20th century