Under a Cruel Star : A Life in Prague 1941-1968

基本信息

By (author) Heda Kovaly , Translated by Franci Epstein , Translated by Helen Epstein

Format:Paperback / softback 192 pages

Publisher:Granta Books

Imprint:Granta Books

ISBN:9781847084767

Published: 5 Jan 2012

Classifications:Former Czechoslovakia, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 1960, Memoirs

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:188g

Dimensions:216 x 137 x 15 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

赫达·科瓦利(Heda Kovaly)是一个富裕的犹太人的女儿，她发现随着德国吞并捷克斯洛伐克，她的世界发生了翻天覆地的变化。1941年，科瓦里被驱逐到罗兹集中营，然后又被送往奥斯维辛集中营，在那里，她的父母被杀害。1944年，科瓦里奇迹般地从1945年初被押往贝尔根-贝尔森的一大群囚犯中逃脱。战后，她和丈夫在布拉格重聚，事情开始看起来更有希望了。

鲁道夫·马戈留斯成为了对外贸易部副部长。但在1952年，他和其他13名政府官员受到审判，其中11人在那个时代最臭名昭著的走秀审判中被处以绞刑。Heda Kovaly和她四岁的儿子受到了国家的追捕和社会的回避。

这本充满力量和感人的回忆录描述了她在二战期间被纳粹监禁和20世纪50年代被共产主义迫害的经历——这是对极权主义下生活的经典描述。

The daughter of prosperous Jews, Heda Kovaly found her world turned upside down with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. Deported to Lodz Ghetto in 1941 and then to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered, in 1944, Kovaly made a miraculous escape from a column of prisoners being marched to Bergen-Belsen in early 1945. On reuniting with her husband in Prague after the war, things started to look more hopeful.

Rudolf Margolius became a deputy minister of foreign trade. But in 1952 he and 13 other government officials were tried and 11 of those hanged in one of the era's most notorious show trials. Heda Kovaly and her four year old son were hounded by the state and shunned by society.

In this powerful and moving memoir, Kovaly describes her imprisonment by the Nazis during WWII and her persecution by the Communists in the 1950s - a classic account of life under totalitarianism.

作者简介

赫达·科瓦利(Heda Kovaly) 1919年出生在布拉格，原名赫达·布洛赫(Heda Bloch)，父母是一对富裕的犹太夫妇。她在纳粹政权的监禁和强迫劳动中幸存下来，在此期间，她的父母都被杀害了。1945年，她从劳改营逃出来，回到故乡布拉格，在那里与丈夫鲁道夫·马格里乌斯(Rudolf Margolius)团聚，后者后来在共产党的公审中被处决。赫达离开布拉格去了美国，在那里当过翻译，后来在哈佛大学当过图书管理员。1996年，她回到布拉格，并于2010年去世，享年91岁。

Heda Kovaly was born Heda Bloch in Prague in 1919, the daughter of a prosperous Jewish couple. She survived imprisonment and forced labour under the Nazi regime, during which time both her parents were killed. She escaped from a labour camp in 1945 and returned to her native Prague, where she was re-united with her husband, Rudolf Margolius, who was later executed in a communist show-trial. Heda left Prague for America, where she worked as a translator and later as a librarian at Harvard University. She returned to Prague in 1996 where she later passed away, aged 91, in 2010.