About Heda Margolius Kovály
Heda Margolius Kovály (15 September 1919 – 5 December 2010) 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. == Early life and World War II == Heda Margolius Kovály was born Hedvika Bloch to Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia In 1939, while Czechoslovakia was occupied by Nazi Germany, Hedvika Helena Bloch married her childhood sweetheart Rudolf Margolius. 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. Margolius was separated from her parents when the Jews were taken out of the Łódź ghetto on arrival to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Margolius was chosen to work as a laborer in the Christianstadt labour camp. Margolius and her husband survived, but her parents were immediately gassed.
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