Let Me Go

Unforgettable and deeply arresting, is a haunting memoir of World War II that "won't let you go until you've finished reading the last page" ( ). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider's mother abandoned her along with her father and younger brother. recounts Helga's final meeting with her ailing mother in a Vienna nursing home some sixty years after World War II, in which Helga confronts a nightmare: her mother's lack of repentance about her past as a Nazi SS guard at concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was responsible for untold acts of torture. With spellbinding detail, Schneider recalls their conversation, evoking her own struggle between a daughter's sense of obligation and the inescapable horror of her mother's deeds.