Ebook: Hitler, Stalin and I: an oral history
Author: Heda Margolius Kovály
- Tags: Antisemitism, Antisemitism--Czech Republic, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Jews, Jews--Czech Republic--Prague, World War 1939-1945, Biography, History, Biographies, Electronic books, Kovály Heda -- 1919-2010, Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1918-1938, Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945, Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992, Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Biography, Antisemitism -- Czech Republic, Wo
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: DoppelHouse Press
- City: Czech Republic;Prague;Czechoslovakia;Prague (Czech Republic
- Language: English
- epub
Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her crime novel Innocence; or Murder on Steep Street—based on her own experiences living under Stalinist oppression—was named an NPR Best Book in 2015.
In the tradition of Studs Terkel, Hitler, Stalin and I is based on interviews between Kovály and award-winning filmmaker Helena Treštíková. In it, Kovály recounts her family history in Czechoslovakia, starving in the deprivations of the Lodz Ghetto, her escape from a death march out of Auschwitz, failing to find sanctuary amongst former friends in Prague as concentration camp escapee, participation in the liberation of Prague, and trying to live in a Stalinist country after her first husband was framed and executed for treason....