Let Me Go, Helga Schneider
Let Me Go, Helga Schneider
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Let Me Go

Author: Helga Schneider

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2005


Synopsis

Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. This extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, tells of a daughters final encounter with her mother, who had left her family to become an SS guard at Auschwitz.

About Helga Schneider

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


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on April 20, 2020

I finished this unsuual memoir in less than 24 hours. Sparse, powerful, and compelling. I finished it the evening before Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is fitting. (The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It mark......more

Goodreads review by Anna on February 09, 2021

Intenso,distruttivo emotivamente, coinvolgente. Offre sicuramente uno sguardo diverso, vero e toccante dell'Olocausto e del nazismo. Poco più di centro pagine,pensavo di leggerlo in un solo giorno durante il mese della memoria:mai sbagliato così tanto. La sua densità di argomenti,i ricordi tormentos......more

Goodreads review by Patrizia on August 13, 2016

In un uggioso pomeriggio del novembre 1941, a Berlino, Helga vede andar via la madre, arruolata nelle SS. La rivedrà nel 1971: un incontro che la lascerà distrutta e determinata a "seppellirla" idealmente. Nel 1998 una lettera che la avverte che la madre è ancora viva ma con la memoria traballante, la......more