Czech Books Hana Pravda: a love stronger than death itself
“I’m now going to write down some of the things which have happened over the last few days. I’ve got such a short memory, I’m afraid, and this is a way of making sure that I don’t forget.” These are the opening lines of a diary that was written in 1945 by a young woman as she gradually emerged from the hell of the concentration camps, hoping, against the odds, to see her husband again. The woman’s name was Hana Pravda, and she died in London on May 22 this year at the age of 92. Hana spent much of the second half of her life in Britain, where she had a long and very successful career as an actress. But it was a career that had been brutally cut in two by the Second World War, and had begun at a very different time and place: in the early 1930s in her home city of Prague.
Eva Munk
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