Heda Margolius Kovály’s oral history Hitler, Stalin and I recounts her unwavering resilience under authoritarian regimes: surviving Auschwitz, escaping a death march, and eventually fleeing Stalin’s regime. She also depicts… Read more London Czech Centre presents found-footage documentary on the Slánský Trial →
“Hours of film and voice recordings, much of it mould-damaged, believed to cover most of the [Slánský Trial] were found stashed in metal and wooden boxes – along with millions of classified Czechoslovak Communist party documents – in the basement of a bankrupt former metal research business in Panenské Břežany, near Prague.”
Hungarian modernism may be a terra incognita for many but the distinguished art historian Éva Forgács is an invaluable guide to the territory. Her essays are shafts of light illuminating a complex terrain that is not only located at the center of Europe but, given the seismic political shifts that have occurred there, is central to the history that defined the twentieth century.