Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History
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Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History

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Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History

About this book

The oral history of a renowned Czech writer, whose optimism and faith in people survived grueling experiences under authoritarian regimes.

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 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 Slánsky Trial and executed for treason. Remarkably, Kovály, 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.

Helena Treštíková has made over fifty documentary films. Hitler, Stalin and I has garnered several awards in the Czech Republic and Japan.

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Information

Publisher
DoppelHouse Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780997818499
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. DEDICATION
  5. CONTENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER I: THE EYEGLASS BY KUPKA: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE FIRST REPUBLIC
  8. CHAPTER II: A SMALL BLOKE IN A DIRTY TRENCH COAT: THE BEGINNINGS OF FASCISM AND THE OCCUPATION
  9. CHAPTER III: WEEDS FOR DINNER: THE TRANSPORT TO ŁÓDŹ GHETTO
  10. CHAPTER IV: A ZEST OF LIFE: LIVING IN ŁÓDŹ GHETTO
  11. CHAPTER V: A WORD OF HONOR: THE TRANSPORT TO AUSCHWITZ
  12. CHAPTER VI: COLUMNS OF FIVE INTO THE GAS CHAMBERS: AUSCHWITZ
  13. CHAPTER VII: KUDLA: THE LABOR CAMP
  14. CHAPTER VIII: NOW OR NEVER: THE DEATH MARCH
  15. CHAPTER IX: TEN LUMPS OF SUGAR: A SEARCH FOR PRAGUE REFUGE
  16. CHAPTER X: STRIPTEASE AT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT: THE PRAGUE UPRISING
  17. CHAPTER XI: CARP ARE NOT KILLED HERE: THE POSTWAR LIFE
  18. CHAPTER XII: THE COUNTRY IN DECLINE: AFTER THE COUP, 1948
  19. CHAPTER XIII: WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD: THE TRIAL
  20. CHAPTER XIV: THE ELEVENTH INTO THE TALLY: AFTER THE EXECUTION
  21. CHAPTER XV: THE DEN IN ŽIŽKOV: LIFE IN ISOLATION
  22. CHAPTER XVI: AN ELEGANT TORCH: THE WARSAW PACT INVASION: 1968
  23. CHAPTER XVII: A LINE FOR APPLE STRUDEL: THE EXILE
  24. CHAPTER XVIII: WHAT ELSE COULD I POSSIBLY WANT?: THE END
  25. TIMELINE
  26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS