Let Me Go

Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that €œwon€t let you go until you€ve finished reading the last page€ (The Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider€s mother abandoned her along with her father and younger brother. Let Me Go 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.