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Written by Helga Schneider - Audio book narrated by Barbara Rosenblat - Unabridged Nonfiction - 4 LIBRARY EDITION CASSETTES - 4.5 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (October 2004)

NOTE: This LIBRARY EDITION is packaged in a sturdy, durable outer vinyl case that stands up to years of repeated use designed for library and rental circulation. Albums are shelvable, space-efficient, with at-a-glance spine titles.

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"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." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

This extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, tells of a daughter’s final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz.

Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a “correction” unit and responsible for untold acts of torture.

Nearly three more decades would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter at a Vienna nursing home where her mother, then eighty-seven and unrepentant about her past, was living. Let Me Go is the extraordinary account of that meeting. Their conversation—which she skillfully weaves into her account, powerfully evoking the misery of obligation colliding with the inescapable horror of what her mother has done—will stay with listeners long after the book has ended.

About the Author: 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.

About the Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded and popular narrators in the country, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She is a three-time recipient of the coveted Audie Award and has earned twenty-six Earphones Awards from AudioFile. She has appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London's West End and on Broadway.