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100 1 $aSchneider, Helga,$d1937-
240 10 $aLasciami andare, madre.$lEnglish
245 10 $aLet me go /$cby Helga Schneider ; [translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside].
260 $aNew York :$bWalker & Co.,$c2004.
300 $a166 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aAn 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 Ravensbru ck, 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.
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600 30 $aSnyder family.
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650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConcentration camps$zGermany.
650 0 $aConcentration camp guards$zGermany$vBiography.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, German.
650 0 $aChildren of Nazis$zGermany$vBiography.
650 0 $aMother and child.
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710 2 $aMazal Holocaust Collection.$5TxSaTAM
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f4f5-aa
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004043092-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004043092-d.html
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