The Bonfire of Berlin

Helga Schneider; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)

"Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched,lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. 'The Bonfire of Berlin' is a harrowing ...