Under a cruel star
Subtitle: a life in Prague, 1941-1968
By: Heda Margolius Kovály ; translated from the Czech by Francis Epstein and Helen Epstein with the author.
Publisher: Holmes & Meier
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Kovály, Heda.; Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945.; Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992.
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.