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

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.