Let Me Go

[tortoise]

Hi
Have just come across this section so thought I would let you know about a book I recently read.
It was by Helga Schneider and called Let Me Go. It was featured on BBC1's page turners. It is about Helga's meeting with her mother after not seeing her for a long time. Her mother was a SS officer in some of the death camps during the war and abandoned Helga and her younger brother to further her career. The mother remains manipulative towards Helga and Helga uses this to find out more information.
It was quite difficult to read in the sense that sometimes you feel sorry for the mother as she is now in an old peoples home and is frail, but you don't want to feel sorry for her knowing what she did to others.

I don't suppose one can say they have "enjoyed" a story of this type, but it was a page turner. I bought and read it in one day! I am interested in history and particually in the stories of holocaust survivors as we have friends who have Jewish relatives who were imprisioned in these awful places.
Helga has also written another book called "Bonfire of Berlin", which relates her childhood in Germany during the war. Interesting to read it from a different side as it were.

Just thought I would share it. :)

[sunny]

Hi Tortoise,
I think I was sitting here at the computer the day this was featured on Page Turners. I vaguely remember a story about a woman SS officer and her child, etc. Sounds like my kind of book too.

Will get it and have to read it after all the others I've got to read!

I, too, am interested in history and the holocaust, although that sounds gory, but not in a gory way, if you know what I mean.

Have you looked at the other books in the book club threads? Some great books listed there too.

Thanks for this one anyway.