Overview
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Helga Schneider ,
Shaun Whiteside
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.143kg
ISBN: 9780099443742
ISBN 10: 0099443740
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 03 March 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Language: Italian
Reviews
A powerful, painful book about moral responsibility * Guardian * Remarkable... Helga Schneider's frank account is desperately sad and powerful. Unforgettable * Jewish Telegraph * Frightening and fascinating * Mail on Sunday * Let Me Go grips the reader completely * Glasgow Herald * The book evocatively portrays the deprivations of wartime Berlin and the devastating emotional impact of one evil individual * Irish Times *
A powerful, painful book about moral responsibility Guardian Remarkable... Helga Schneider's frank account is desperately sad and powerful. Unforgettable Jewish Telegraph Frightening and fascinating Mail on Sunday Let Me Go grips the reader completely Glasgow Herald The book evocatively portrays the deprivations of wartime Berlin and the devastating emotional impact of one evil individual Irish Times
A powerful, painful book about moral responsibility * Guardian * Remarkable... Helga Schneider's frank account is desperately sad and powerful. Unforgettable * Jewish Telegraph * Frightening and fascinating * Mail on Sunday * Let Me Go grips the reader completely * Glasgow Herald * The book evocatively portrays the deprivations of wartime Berlin and the devastating emotional impact of one evil individual * Irish Times *
Author Information
Helga Schneider (Author) Helga Schneider, born in 1937 in Steinberg, now in Poland, spent her childhood in Berlin. When her mother left the family in 1941 to become a concentration camp guard, Helga Schneider was brought up first by her stepmother, and then in boarding-schools. She is the author of Let Me Go. Shaun Whiteside (Translator) Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from French, German, Italian and Dutch. His most recent translations from German include Aftermath by Harald J hner, To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann, Swansong 1945 by Walter Kempowski, Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein and The Broken House by Horst Kr ger.
