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Let Me Go
- Author
- Helga Schneider
- Narrator
- Anne Dover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 23 December 2010
- Run Time
- 4 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a disastrous visit where Helga first learnt the terrible secret of her mother's past.
Traudi was as an extermination guard in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck and was involved in Nazi 'medical' experiments on prisoners. She has never expressed even the slightest remorse for her actions, yet Helga still hopes that at this final meeting she will find some way to forgive her mother.
Critics Review
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A powerful, painful book about moral responsibility
Guardian
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Remarkable... Helga Schneider's frank account is desperately sad and powerful. Unforgettable
Jewish Telegraph
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Frightening and fascinating
Mail on Sunday
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Let Me Go grips the reader completely
Glasgow Herald
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The book evocatively portrays the deprivations of wartime Berlin and the devastating emotional impact of one evil individual
Irish Times
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Details
- Author
- Helga Schneider
- Narrator
- Anne Dover
- Duration
- 4 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 December 2010
- ISBN
- 9781407085227
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Far-right political ideologies and movements, Autobiography: historical, political and military, The Holocaust, Second World War, Modern warfare
Synopsis
When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a disastrous visit where Helga first learnt the terrible secret of her mother's past. Traudi was as an extermination guard in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck and was involved in Nazi 'medical' experiments on prisoners. She has never expressed even the slightest remorse for her actions, yet Helga still hopes that at this final meeting she will find some way to forgive her mother.
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