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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss. Read by the actress Emily Bevan. In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in...

Vienna, 1971. In un appartamento nel cuore della città una giovane donna sta per incontrare sua madre. Non si vedono da trent'anni. Helga era bambina quando, in una Berlino già sventrata dalle bombe, la madre aveva abbandonato il marito e i figli per entrare volontaria nelle SS. Ora, dopo pochi formali abbracci, la conduce verso un armadio dentro al quale è riposta una perfetta uniforme nazista. Sospira, nostalgica. E Helga scappa, corre per le scale, si allontana per sempre da lei e da quella implacabile fedeltà.

Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. When she next saw her mother, 30 years later, she learned the shocking reason why. Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts of torture.

When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a disastrous visit where Helga first learnt the...