Heda Margolius KOVALY The First Spring Of Prague Memories 1941-1968

Description: Heda Margolius KOVALY The First Prague Spring Memories 1941 1968 Date of print: 1968 State: Good condition Condition Detail: Good condition Reference 400093142 Availability In stock Description paperback book 295 pages published by Payot. some traces of folding on the cover - not many - apart from that in VERY GOOD CONDITION used interior clean and still fresh without tears or annotations. Heda Kovály was born in Prague into an ordinary Jewish family. In 1941 she was deported to a concentration camp from which none of her family returned. Here she recounts the horror of those years in a few modest pages. She managed to escape and returned to Prague. The city is still occupied. She went into hiding until the uprising against the Germans in May 1945. Life then resumes: it is the first Prague Spring. She finds Rudolf Margolius, her childhood sweetheart, who has also returned from the camps. He is a member of the Czech Communist Party and was soon appointed minister. Yesterday's outcast, Heda has become a notable of the communist regime, whose servitude, vanities and aberrations she describes here without amenity. This truce was to be short-lived, interrupted by Stalinist persecutions. Rudolf Margolius was among the accused in the famous Slansky trial in 1952. In a sinister scene prepared from Moscow, he was sentenced to death and executed. For Heda it is once again exile, stripped, humiliated and without resources, this time in her own country. Later, revelations about Stalin's crimes led to the rehabilitation of the victims, but they could not bring back the dead or erase the memories. The "Prague Spring" would momentarily revive hopes that would be crushed by the tanks of the Red Army in August 1968. This time it is she who chooses to leave. For real. From these disenchanted memories Heda Kovály has composed a book whose beauty is like the melancholic consolation of misfortune, the story of a woman from a city of a chapter of our recent history that has now closed. Heda Kovály's voice reproduces the already muffled echoes with grace, lucidity and infinite courage. Pictures Other books in our catalog UNREALIZABLE Pious image religion N96 different formats scale grouped shipping History and catechesis n95 catechesis April 1984 CD Songs from that year CD Il Monde Retint Il Suo respiro Stalin E Il 22 Giugno Pierre Rondière Madeleine Chapsal Suzanne and the province THE DIVIDED WORLD THRESHOLD Letters from my hatchet mill Tillie the Dragon DVD PARIS MATCH n903 July 30, 1966 Greece 1the royal family islands paperback book 295 pages published by Payot. some traces of folding on the cover - not many - apart from that in VERY GOOD CONDITION used interior clean and still fresh without tears or annotations. Heda Kovály was born in Prague into an ordinary Jewish family. In 1941 she was deported to a concentration camp from which none of her family returned. Here she recounts the horror of those years in a few modest pages. She managed to escape and returned to Prague. The city is still occupied. She went into hiding until the uprising against the Germans in May 1945. Life then resumes: it is the first Prague Spring. She finds Rudolf Margolius, her childhood sweetheart, who has also returned from the camps. He is a member of the Czech Communist Party and was soon appointed minister. Yesterday's outc

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