Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

Let me go, Helga Schneider ; [translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside]

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Let me go

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Helga Schneider ; [translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside]

"Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts of torture. Nearly three more decades would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter at a Vienna nursing home where her mother, then eighty-seven and unrepentant about her past, was living. 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" -- container