Let Me Go - Softcover

Schneider, Helga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143035177 ISBN 13: 9780143035176

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

Synopsis

A compelling memoir of Nazi Germany describes how the author's mother abandoned her family to pursue her career as an SS officer, her final meeting with her mother many years later in a nursing home, and her struggle to come to terms with her mother's lack of repentance for her horrific past. Reprint.

About this title

Product Description:

Let Me Go 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.

Review:

'A powerful, painful book about moral responsibility' -- The Guardian

'Disturbing, haunting memoir' -- Belfast Telegraph

'Frightening and Fascinating' -- Mail on Sunday

'Remarkable...Helga Schneider's frank account is desperately sad and powerful. Unforgettable' -- Jewish Telegraph

'The book evocatively portrays the deprivations of wartime Berlin and the devastating emotional impact of one evil individual' -- Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143035177
• ISBN 13: 9780143035176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192