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Helga Schneider

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Helga Schneider, born in 1937 in Steinberg, now in Poland, spent her childhood in Berlin. When her mother left the family in 1941 to become a concentration camp guard, Helga Schneider was brought up first by her stepmother, and then in boarding-schools. She is the author of Let Me Go.

Books by Helga Schneider

The Bonfire Of Berlin

The powerful and moving memoir of Helga Schneider's abandonment by her parents and her terrifying childhood in wartime and post-war Berlin, by the author of Let Me Go.

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Let Me Go

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

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