Let Me Go by Helga Schneider

Let Me Go by Helga Schneider

Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. When she next saw her mother, thirty years later, she learned the shocking reason why. Her mother had joined the Nazi S and had become a guard in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a correction unit and responsible for untold acts of torture. Nearly thirty more years would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter in Vienna where her ailing mother, then eighty-seven and unrepentant about her past, was living in a nursing home. Let Me Go is the extraordinary account of that meeting and of their conversation, which powerfully evokes the misery of obligation colliding with the inescapable horror of what her mother has done.

Helga Schneider was born in 1937 in Steinberg, which is now part of Poland, and grew up in Berlin. She has worked as a freelance writer in Bologna, Italy, for many years.

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ISBN 13	9780143035176
ISBN 10	0143035177
Titel	Let Me Go
Autor	Helga Schneider
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-08-30
Seitenanzahl	192
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.