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Translated by Helen Epstein “A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century.” – San Francisco Chronicle “Once in a rare while we read a book that puts the urgencies of our time and ourselves in perspective, making us confront the darker realities of human nature... Mrs. Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. But her book is not just a personal memoir of inhumanity. In telling her story – simply, without self-pity – she illuminates some general truths of human behavior... Quietly, with cumulative force, it shows us how the totalitarian state feeds on the blindness and the weakness of man.” – Anthony Lewis, The New York Times “A wonderfully expressive writer. Although her approach is above all personal, Kovaly’s reflections on her experiences reveal a high degree of insight into politics, individual and institutional behavior, and the formation of attitudes.” – Christian Science Monitor “A Jew in Czechoslovakia under the Nazis, Kovaly spent the war years in the Lodz ghetto and several concentration camps, losing her family and barely surviving herself. Returning to Pr

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Author

Heda Margolius Kovály

Publisher

Plunkett Lake Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780841913776

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, European History

Rating

4.23 / 5 (1,219 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13