Description - Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
An extraordinary and powerful memoir of a daughter's last encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau In 1998, Helga Schneider was summoned to the nursing home where her 90-year-old mother was living. She had seen her only once since 1941, when her mother abandoned the family in order to pursue her career as an SS officer. This frank account of their last meeting is both desperately sad and extraordinarily powerful. She describes without sentimentality or self-pity her difficult childhood and her harsh confrontation with the reality of her mother's crimes. Interweaving her family history into her conversation with her unrepentant mother, she evokes the pain and misery of Nazi and post-war Berlin.
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