snyder family

Based on the story of the author's grandparents' migration to the United States from late-nineteenth-century Russia, shares how Solomon moved to the United States first, where he worked to save money for Anna to join him.

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.