In 1998, Schneider, in her sixties, is summoned from Italy to the nursing home in Vienna in which her 90 year old mother lives. The last time she has seen her mother is 27 years earlier, when her mother asked her daughter to try on her SS uniform which she treasures, and tried to give her several items of jewellery, the loot of holocaust victims, ...
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 her searing account of her survival. The grinding misery of ...
Leo's mum and dad are always very busy. They never have any time for Leo. But when Leo's mum even has to go to work on his birthday, it's the final straw. Feeling very angry and sad, Leo goes up to his room to sulk. But as he thinks to himself how much better it would be if his family were all animals instead, Leo drifts off to sleep.
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