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Jo Langer and her husband Oscar were committed communists; she Hungarian, he Slovakian. During the Second World War the couple, both Jewish, escaped to America. Most members of their extended family were murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, they returned to Czechoslovakia to help build communism. She worked for state exports in Bratislava; he was an economist working for the Central Committee. In 1951 Oscar Langer was arrested and detained as part of the anti-Semitic purge of the Communist Party that culminated in the infamous Slanksky trials. He was subjected to solitary confinement, threats against his family, unbearable cold and hunger, anti-Semitic abuse and beatings. In the end, he submitted. In a statement dictated by his interrogators he said, 'I confess that I am an important link in the anti-state conspiracy of Zionists and Jewish bourgeois nationalists'. Jo Langer lost her job, and was exiled to the countryside. In Convictions, she vividly describes trying to her protect her two daughters and scrape a living, surviving the loss of her husband, her place in society and her faith in communism. Oscar Langer died shortly after his release from prison. Jo Langer left Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring in 1968, and went into exile in Sweden.
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'Jo Langer's memoir is one of the classic testimonies to come out of post-war Europe under communist rule - a moving, horrifying true-life counterpart to Koetler's Darkness at Noon' Tom Stoppard
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`Impassioned, intimate and fiercely intelligent ... A deeply affecting story and an example of true moral resistance' --Eva Hoffman
`Langer is excellent on the culture shock of working for the Party' --Herald
'One woman's remarkable story of eking out a life for herself in the totalitarian state of 1950s Czechoslovakia'
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1847083382
- ISBN 13 9781847083388
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