Heda Margolius Kovály, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heda Margolius Kovály

Czech writer and translator

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1919

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 05-Dec-2010

Profession: writer, translator

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Heda Margolius Kovály

  • Heda Margolius Kovály (15 September 1919 – 5 December 2010) was a Czech writer and translator.
  • She survived the Lódz ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents died.
  • She later escaped whilst being marched to Bergen-Belsen to find that no one would take her in.
  • Her husband was made a deputy minister in Czechoslovakia and he was then hanged as a traitor.
  • As the wife of disgraced man she married again and they were treated badly.
  • They left for the USA in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries.
  • She published her biography in 1973.
  • She and her husband did not return to her homeland until 1996.

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