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Let Me Go

by Helga Schneider

Average based on 1 comment. Synopses & Reviews Read an Excerpt Customer Comments (1) ISBN13: 9780143035176 ISBN10: 0143035177 Condition: All Product Details

 

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Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that “won’t let you go until you’ve finished reading the last page” (The Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider’s mother abandoned her along with her father and younger brother. Let Me Go recounts Helga’s final meeting with her ailing mother in a Vienna nursing home some sixty years after World War II, in which Helga confronts a nightmare: her mother’s lack of repentance about her past as a Nazi SS guard at concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was responsible for untold acts of torture. With spellbinding detail, Schneider recalls their conversation, evoking her own struggle between a daughter’s sense of obligation and the inescapable horror of her mother’s deeds.

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Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that wont let you go until youve finished reading the last page (The Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneiders mother abandoned her along with her father and younger brother. Let Me Go recounts Helgas final meeting with her ailing mother in a Vienna nursing home some sixty years after World War II, in which Helga confronts a nightmare: her mothers lack of repentance about her past as a Nazi SS guard at concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was responsible for untold acts of torture. With spellbinding detail, Schneider recalls their conversation, evoking her own struggle between a daughters sense of obligation and the inescapable horror of her mothers deeds.

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In this powerful memoir, the author describes her relationship and final encounter with her mother, who abandoned the family 56 years earlier to pursue a career with the SS culminating in a position as a guard at Auschwitz.

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About the Author

Helga Schneider was born in 1937 in Steinberg, now Poland, and spent her childhood in Berlin. She has been a freelance writer for many years in Bologna, Italy.

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Cheryl Marseilles, September 17, 2006 (view all comments by Cheryl Marseilles)
This is one book you will not put down! A family is torn apart by the Holocaust, and a young girl relives her trauma of her parents and brother leaving her. This book is sad, yet powerful reading.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780143035176

Author:

Schneider, Helga

Publisher:

Penguin Books

Subject:

Women

Subject:

Military

Subject:

Holocaust

Subject:

Biography-Military

Edition Description:

Mass Market

Publication Date:

20050831

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Pages:

192

Dimensions:

7.06x5.08x.53 in. .32 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18

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Product details 192 pages Penguin Books - 2005-08-00 English 9780143035176 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that wont let you go until youve finished reading the last page (The Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneiders mother abandoned her along with her father and younger brother. Let Me Go recounts Helgas final meeting with her ailing mother in a Vienna nursing home some sixty years after World War II, in which Helga confronts a nightmare: her mothers lack of repentance about her past as a Nazi SS guard at concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was responsible for untold acts of torture. With spellbinding detail, Schneider recalls their conversation, evoking her own struggle between a daughters sense of obligation and the inescapable horror of her mothers deeds.

"Synopsis" by Libri, In this powerful memoir, the author describes her relationship and final encounter with her mother, who abandoned the family 56 years earlier to pursue a career with the SS culminating in a position as a guard at Auschwitz.