This is memoir of Helga Schneider who was abandoned by her German mother in Berlin in 1941. As a young adult she relocated her mother and visited once; she learned that her mother had left her family behind to serve in the SS. Nearly thirty more years passed before she visited her mother again. Her mother was 87 and unrepentant about her role as a guard at Auschwitz. Let Me Go is the account of that meeting, as Helga tries to understand her mother and what happened to her.
The subject is not easy, and none of the characters are particularly lovable. What makes this audiobook 4 stars is the work of reader extraordinaire Barbara Rosenblat. She makes every character live and breathe.
The subject is not easy, and none of the characters are particularly lovable. What makes this audiobook 4 stars is the work of reader extraordinaire Barbara Rosenblat. She makes every character live and breathe.
