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.

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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.

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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.

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