Hana Bořkovcová
Hana Bořkovcová (born Hana Knappová, June 4, 1927 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ; died February 25, 2009 there ) was a Czechoslovakian writer and Holocaust survivor.
Life
Hana Knappová was a daughter of Viktor Knapp (1893-1944) and Renata Knapp and she was a granddaughter of the Czechoslovak Jewish politician Ludvík Singer . After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, her father's dental trade was Aryanized , and in 1940 she had to leave the high school for racist reasons and attend a middle school set up for Jews. Her family was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 . In 1944 they were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where their father and brother were murdered while they and their mother were transferred to Kurzbach , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp, for forced labor . At the end of the war they survived a death march and were liberated in Wohlau .
After the war Knappová married the architect Aleš Bořkovec and they had five children. She started writing in the 1960s. Hana Bořkovcová published several books for children and young people, as well as excerpts from her saved diary from the time of the German occupation up to her deportation to Auschwitz.
Works (selection)
- Světýlka . Prague: Čs. spis., 1971
- Vzteklouni . Prague: Albatros, 1975
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My tři cvoci . Prague: Albatros, 1973
- Three weirdos and the missing bike . Translation Martin Schuster. Aarau Sauerländer, 1975 ISBN 978-3-7941-1403-0
- Tři cvoci a cizí holka . Prague: Albatros, 1977
- Cesta kolem světa za osmdesát let . Prague: Albatros, 1982
- Stan, do kterého prší . Prague: Albatros, 1986
- Jdi pryč . Prague: Portál, 1994 ISBN 80-85282-81-X
- Zakázané holky . Prague: Albatros, 1995 ISBN 80-00-00216-7
- Cizí holka . Prague: Albatros, 1999 ISBN 80-00-00667-7
- Soukromý rozhovor . Kostelní Vydří: Karmelitánské Nakl., 2004 ISBN 80-7192-796-1
- Píšu a sešit mi leží na kolenou . Editor Michal Kosák. Prague: Plus, 2011 ISBN 978-80-259-0055-0
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Hana Bořkovcová in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Hana Bořkovcová in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Hana Bořkovcová in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Hana Bořkovcová , short biography at databazeknih.cz
- Hana Bořkovcová , revolverrevue.cz
- Hana Bořkovcová , pametnaroda.cz (en) with a video and a photo
- Hana Bořkovcová , at USHMM
Individual evidence
- ↑ Viktor Knapp , at holocaust.cz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bořkovcová, Hana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knappová, Hana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovakian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2009 |
| Place of death | Prague |