Under a Cruel Star
Book description
Heda Margolius Kovaly's memoir of the crisis of modern Czech history recounts the tragedies and terrors in the life of a young Jewish woman, beginning with the Nazi invasion and her deportation to Auschwitz. She eventually returned to Prague, where she took part in the May 1945 uprising.
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1 author picked Under a Cruel Star as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Events that happen to us can damn us or liberate us. We will not always know which.
Stories can help show these events and their consequences, even if they might not give them any real or acceptable meaning. But our descriptions of these events can help us see our life amidst the powers of the events. Heda Margolius Kovaly offers an admirable and brilliant example in her memoir Under a Cruel Star.
The memoir is a remarkable achievement of clarity, focus, and wisdom. Her life is more than that.
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