Hitler, Stalin and I An Oral History

Name: Hitler, Stalin and I
Author: Helena Trestikova

Auteur: Heda Margolius Kovly

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Heda Margolius Kovly Helena Trestikova

Engels
Paperback
9780997818475
01 maart 2018
160 pagina's

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The oral history of a renowned Czech writer, whose optimism and faith in people survived grueling experiences under authoritarian regimes. Heda Margolius Kovaly (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 Kovaly and award-winning filmmaker Helena Trestikova. In it, Kovaly 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 Slansky Trial and executed for treason. Remarkably, Kovaly, 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 Trestikova has made over fifty documentary films. Hitler, Stalin and I has garnered several awards in the Czech Republic and Japan.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 maart 2018
Aantal pagina's: 160
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Hoofdauteur: Heda Margolius Kovly
Tweede Auteur: Helena Trestikova
Hoofdredacteur: Helena Tretkov
Hoofduitgeverij: Doppelhouse Press

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Eerste Vertaler: Ivan Margolius

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
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Verpakking breedte: 137 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 216 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 99 g

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EAN: 9780997818475

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