Helpful Score: 3
Short but powerful memoir. Helga Schneider's mother abandoned her family in 1941 to join the Nazis and was a prison guard in the camps. You can feel Helga's pain, shame, love and loathing. Difficult to read, but riveting.
Helpful Score: 2
This is a very interesting true story. The woman who wrote it is a journalist living in Italy; she finds out that her aged mother, who left the family when the author was a young girl, was a Nazi SS guard in the concentration camps.