![]() ![]() ![]() Kovály’s memoir describes in detail the continuing anti-Semitism that Jews returning from concentration camps faced. The only member of her family to survive the war was her husband, Rudolf Margolius. Kovaly took part in the Prague uprising against the Nazis in May 1945. ![]() Of Jewish ancestry, she spent the years of the Second World War in the Lodz Ghetto and then in concentration camps Auschwitz and Gross Rosen sub-camps including Christianstadt.Īfter her camp was evacuated, she escaped from a death march and made her way back to Prague, where many of her friends refused to take her in due to the Nazis’ harsh punishments for those sheltering camp escapees. The book is also available in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Romanian, Spanish and the original Czech edition. The memoir was originally written in Czech and published in Canada in 1973 under the title “Na vlastni kuzi” by 68 Publishers, a well-known publishing house for Czech expatriates in Toronto.Īn English translation appeared the same year as the first part of the book The Victors and the Vanquished published by Horizon Press in New York.Ī British edition of the book excluded the second treatise and was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson under the title “I Do Not Want to Remember” in 1973. Mahi is the publisher of the book translated into Persian by Razieh Khoshnud. TEHRAN – Czech writer Heda Margolius Kovaly’s memoir “Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968” has been published in Persian. ![]()
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