Let Me Go
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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 |
| Title | Let Me Go |
| Author | Helga Schneider |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2005-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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