| Let Me Go Library Edition Contributor(s): Schneider, Helga (Author), Rosenblat, Barbara (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786185139 ISBN-13: 9780786185139 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: Kirkus gave a starred review to Let Me Go."Mothers come in all shapes and persuasions: this one enthusiastically joined the Waffen SS, abandoned her children, and embraced her tasks at Auschwitz, as gloomily recounted in her daughter's memoir...Survivor's tales come in as many shapes as mothers. This one, from the dark side, is as affecting as a kick in the stomach." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | Holocaust - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.38" W x 7.56" (0.37 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. When she next saw her mother, thirty years later, she learned the shocking reason why. Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts of torture. Nearly thirty more years would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter in Vienna where her ailing mother, then eighty-seven and unrepentant about her past, was living in a nursing home. Let Me Go is the extraordinary account of that meeting and of their conversation, which powerfully evokes the misery of obligation colliding with the inescapable horror of what her mother has done. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schneider, Helga: - 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. Rosenblat, Barbara: -Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded narrators in the business, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She has received the prestigious Audie Award multiple times and has earned fifty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has also appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London's West End and on Broadway. |