The bonfire of Berlin
Schneider, Helga, 1937-2006
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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. This is her story.
Main title:
The bonfire of Berlin / Helga Schneider ; translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside.
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London : Vintage, 2006.
Collation:
220 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: William Heineman, 2005.
ISBN:
9780099443735 (pbk)
Dewey class:
943.1550864092943.1
Local class:
943.1 SCH
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
950272