schneider, helga

Describes the reunion of Helga Schneider and her mother, who left Helga, her siblings, and their father and became a Nazi SS "Corrections" officer at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Helga Schneider, abandoned in 1941 by her mother who joined the Nazi SS and went to work as a guard at Auschwitz, discusses her second and final meeting with the woman, who at age eighty-seven and confined to a Vienna nursing home, remained unrepentant about her past.