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03180aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 C7E639C0370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 171218s2018 caua 000 0beng d 010 $a 2017946125 020 $a 0997818476 020 $a 9780997818475 020 $a 0998777005 020 $a 9780998777009 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1027001587 040 $a TOH $b eng $c TOH $d OCLCO $d OWS $d IW5 $d SILO 043 $a e-pl--- $a e-pl--- 050 4 $a DB2629 $b .K68 2018 100 1 $a KovaÌly, Heda, $d 1919-2010, $e author. 240 10 $a Hitler, Stalin a jaÌ. $l English 245 10 $a Hitler, Stalin and I : $b an oral history / $c Heda Margolius KovaÌly and Helena TrÌesÌtiÌkovaÌ ; translated by Iva Margolius. 260 $a Los Angeles, California : $b DoppelHouse Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 160 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Heda Margolius Kov?ly (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 Kov?ly and award-winning filmmaker Helena Tre?t?kov?. In it, Kov?ly recounts her family history in Czechoslovakia, starving in the deprivations of Lodz Ghetto, how she miraculously left Auschwitz, fled from a death march, failed to find sanctuary amongst former friends in Prague as a concentration camp escapee, and participated in the liberation of Prague. Later under Communist rule, she suffered extreme social isolation as a pariah after her first husband Rudolf Margolius was unjustly accused in the infamous Sl?nsky Trial and executed for treason. Remarkably, Kov?ly, exiled in the United States after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, only had love for her country and continued to believe in its people. She returned to Prague in 1996. Heda had an enormous talent for expressing herself. She spoke with precision and was descriptive and witty in places. I admired her attitude and composure, even after she had such extremely difficult experiences. Nazism and Communism afflicted Heda's life directly with maximum intensity. Nevertheless, she remained an optimist. 600 10 $a KovaÌly, Heda, $d 1919-2010. 610 20 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 650 0 $a Jews $z Prague $z Prague $v Biography. 650 0 $a Antisemitism $z Czech Republic. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, Czechoslovakian. 650 0 $a Oral history. 651 0 $a Czechoslovakia $x History $y 1918-1938. 651 0 $a Czechoslovakia $x History $y 1938-1945. 651 0 $a Czechoslovakia $x History $y 1945-1992. 651 0 $a Prague (Czech Republic) $v Biography. 700 1 $a TrÌesÌtiÌkovaÌ, Helena, $d 1949- $e author. $e author. 700 1 $a Margolius, Ivan, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180403015248.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C7E639C0370411E887D7D95B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search