Helga schneider biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders...
Helga schneider biography for kids
My mum, the Auschwitz guard: Author's shock at long-lost mother's past as Nazi who proudly gassed Jews at death camp
Helga Schneider still remembers her mother’s words. Suitcase in hand, she bent down, looked her in the eye and said: “Mummy has to go away.
Be a good girl, don’t cry.”
With that, Traudi shut the door on the family home, leaving Helga alone with her 19-month-old brother. It was 1941 in Berlin. And Helga was just four.
Shunted between homes and put into an institution for problem children, Helga grew up yearning for a mum to comfort her through the horrors of war.
It was 30 years before she finally found her again, and then she unearthed a truth that would scar her for ever: the mother she had pined for was a volunteer for Hitler’s Nazi Waffen-SS – and a guard at Auschwitz -Birkenau.
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While Helga had been crying for her mum, Tr