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Author Schneider, Helga, 1937-

Uniform Title Lasciami andare, madre. English
Title Let me go / by Helga Schneider ; [translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside].

Imprint New York : Walker & Co., 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Baron  306.8743 Sch57Bs 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 166 pages ; 20 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary An emotional memoir chronicles the uneasy reunion between a daughter abandoned at the age of four and the mother who left her husband and young children to join the infamous Nazi Secret Service in World War II. The extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, of a daughter's final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz. In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider's mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father. Thirty years later, when she saw her mother again for the first time, Schneider discovered the shocking reason, her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück, 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 ailing. Let Me Go is an extraordinary account of that meeting. Their conversation, which Schneider recounts in spellbinding detail, triggers childhood memories, and she weaves these into her account, powerfully evoking the misery of Nazi and postwar Berlin. Yet it is her internal struggle, a daughter's sense of obligation colliding with the inescapable horror of what her mother has done, that will stay with readers long after the book has ended. Helga Schneider was born in 1937 in Steinberg, now in Poland, and spent her childhood in Berlin. When her mother left the family, she was brought up first by her stepmother and then in a boarding school. She has lived as a freelance writer for many years in Bologna, Italy.
Subject Schneider, Helga, 1937- -- Family.
Snyder family.
Schneider, Helga, 1937-
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Biography.
Schneider, Helga, 1937- (OCoLC)fst01801518
Snyder family. (OCoLC)fst00218118
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. (OCoLC)fst00537326
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany.
Concentration camp guards -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
Children of Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.
Mother and child.
Children of Nazis. (OCoLC)fst00855281
Concentration camp guards. (OCoLC)fst00872922
Concentration camps. (OCoLC)fst00872933
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Mother and child. (OCoLC)fst01026878
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term 1939 - 1945
Genre/Form Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Personal narratives -- German. (OCoLC)fst01424113
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Added Author Whiteside, Shaun, translator.
ISBN 0802714358 (alk. paper)
9780802714350 (alk. paper)

 
    
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