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Heda Margolius Kovaly Prague Farewell Czechoslovakia Slansky
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Prague Farewell
By Heda Margolius Kovaly
A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews
Heda Margolius Kovály was born Heda Blochová to Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where she lived and married her childhood sweetheart, Rudolf Margolius, until 1941 when her family was rounded up along with the first 5,000 of the city's Jewish population and taken to the Lodz Ghetto in central Poland.
When the Jews were taken out of the ghetto and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 she was separated from her parents and husband. After arriving at Auschwitz, she was chosen to survive - though her parents were immediately gassed - and to work as a labourer in the Christianstadt labour camp.
When the Eastern Front of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union approached the camp, its prisoners were evacuated.
With a few other women in the first months of 1945, she decided while on the death march to Bergen-Belsen, to escape back to Prague.
After arriving in the city, Margolius discovered that most of the people who remained in the city during the war were too frightened by the threat of German punishment to aid an escapee from the camps. When Soviet forces finally freed Prague from Nazi control the Communist Party began to rise.
The experiences of her husband at Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps had led him to become a communist. Having been asked, he took a job with the Communist government of Klement Gottwald as Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, despite his own and his wife's reservations about the position.
In 1952, her husband was found guilty of conspiracy during the notorious Slánský trial. Rudolf was one of the eleven Jews on the list of fourteen accused. Having been prevented from seeing her husband for eleven months after his arrest, and after he and the other arrested Jews gave false confessions extracted by torture, Heda later learned that he had been hanged and his body cremated and given to security officials for disposal.
In a final indignity, a few miles out of Prague, the officials' limousine began to skid
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By Heda Margolius Kovaly
A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews
Heda Margolius Kovály was born Heda Blochová to Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where she lived and married her childhood sweetheart, Rudolf Margolius, until 1941 when her family was rounded up along with the first 5,000 of the city's Jewish population and taken to the Lodz Ghetto in central Poland.
When the Jews were taken out of the ghetto and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 she was separated from her parents and husband. After arriving at Auschwitz, she was chosen to survive - though her parents were immediately gassed - and to work as a labourer in the Christianstadt labour camp.
When the Eastern Front of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union approached the camp, its prisoners were evacuated.
With a few other women in the first months of 1945, she decided while on the death march to Bergen-Belsen, to escape back to Prague.
After arriving in the city, Margolius discovered that most of the people who remained in the city during the war were too frightened by the threat of German punishment to aid an escapee from the camps. When Soviet forces finally freed Prague from Nazi control the Communist Party began to rise.
The experiences of her husband at Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps had led him to become a communist. Having been asked, he took a job with the Communist government of Klement Gottwald as Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, despite his own and his wife's reservations about the position.
In 1952, her husband was found guilty of conspiracy during the notorious Slánský trial. Rudolf was one of the eleven Jews on the list of fourteen accused. Having been prevented from seeing her husband for eleven months after his arrest, and after he and the other arrested Jews gave false confessions extracted by torture, Heda later learned that he had been hanged and his body cremated and given to security officials for disposal.
In a final indignity, a few miles out of Prague, the officials' limousine began to skid
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- Date Listed:13/01/2024
- Last Edited:13/01/2024
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