About Heda Margolius Kovály
Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer and translator. As a Jewish woman during the Holocaust, she survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents were murdered. She later escaped while being marched to Bergen-Belsen. Her first husband Rudolf Margolius was the Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade in Czechoslovakia from 1949 until 1952, when he was sentenced to death as a traitor in the antisemitic Slánský show trial. She remarried to Pavel Kovály in 1955, using his name to submit her later work. In 1941, Heda Margolius and her husband together with her parents were rounded up along with the first 5,000 of the city's Jewish population and taken to the Łódź ghetto in central Poland. After arriving in the city, Margolius discovered that most of the people who remained in the city during the war were too frightened by the threat of German punishment to aid an escapee from the camps.
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