Thank you for this post. I definitely want to read Heda's book. I woud probably never have stumbled across this on my own. :) posted by bim at 8:53 AM on June 17, 2006
Most of us are familiar with the Holocaust’s unspeakable brutalities and degradations. But imagine a former camp prisoner who could begin a reflection on the daily hour-long train trip from Auschwitz to a work site in subfreezing temperatures by stating, as Kovály does, “I loved those trips”:
"The tracks crossed an area under which an entire industrial complex had been built. Clouds of steam issued out from the earth in many places; mysterious iron constructions and fantastic twisted pipes rose from the moss-covered ground of the woods. The sun was already rising and, since there was always a thick fog hugging the ground, the sun’s rays broke through it and colored the mist a variety of deep pinks, an orange, gold, and blue. Out of this shimmering vapor, dark shapes of trees and bushes emerged, drifted toward us, and vanished again."
It's a great book, a remarkable woman writing a memoir about very harsh times. Deep blue world or Zelary
are recent Czech movies about WWII; not memoirs, and of course both fiction. posted by lw at 11:33 AM on June 19, 2006
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