Heda Margolius Kovály (15 September 1919 – 5 December 2010) was a Czech writer and translator. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents died. She later escaped whilst being marched to Bergen-Belsen to find that no one would take her in. Her husband was made a deputy minister in Czechoslovakia and he was then hanged as a traitor. As the wife of disgraced man she married again and they were treated badly. They left for the USA in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries. She published her biography in 1973. She and her husband did not return to her homeland until 1996.
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Date of birth | 15 September 1919
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Place of birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Date of death | 5 December 2010
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Age | 91 (age at death)
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Place of death | Prague, Czech Republic
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