Let Me Go By: Helga Schneider

Let Me Go, is a magnificent nonfiction novel. I usually hate nonfiction, but this book kept you hooked till the end. It is a bout a girl at the age of 4 is (brother 16 months) abandoned by her mother so she can join the SS. She and her brother bounce from one family member to a next. As you may have figured out the daughter is the author, Helga Schneider. This book proved to me that not all nonfiction is boring or not interesting. I recommend this book to everyone, it makes the war come alive again, with some truth of what happened.

She tracks down her mother after 30 years so she could meet her grandson. Though she ignored her grandson, she tried to bribe her daughter to love her with the gold taken from the Jews in the camp. After that they broke off all contact again. Helga gets a letter 27 years later from her mother’s only real friend. It says that her mother has memory loss and is not in a good physical state. It stated that if she could see her one last time before she died; maybe they could work some things out. But what her mother is proud of 100’s of deaths by her hand, she is just horrified. Her mother dies 3 years later in 2001, she was 92.