![]() ![]() ![]() Thereafter, Rudolf became deputy minister for foreign trade. Returning to Prague at the end of the war, she married an old friend, a bright, enthusiastic young Jewish economist named Rudolf Margolius, who saw the country's only hope for the future in the Communist Party. "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. 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 Quietly, with cumulative force, it shows us how the totalitarian state feeds on the blindness and the weakness of man." Anthony Lewis, New York Times In telling her story – simply, without self-pity – she illuminates some general truths of human behavior. ![]() But her book is not just a personal memoir of inhumanity. Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. "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. one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century." San Francisco Chronicle "A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable. ![]()
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