A classic account of life under Nazism and Stalinism that will appeal to fans of Alone in Berlin and Stasiland
Heda Kovßly's world was turned upside down with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. Deported to Lodz Ghetto in 1941 and then to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered, in 1944, Kovaly made a miraculous escape. On reuniting with her husband in Prague after the war, things started to look more hopeful. But in 1952 he was tried and hanged in one of the era's most notorious show trials. Heda Kovßly and her four year old son were hounded by the state and shunned by society.
