The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany

by Helga Schneider

Book Overview

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 searing account of her survival. The grinding misery of hunger, combined with the terror of air-raids, the absence of fresh water and the constant threat of death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099443732
• ISBN13: 9780099443735
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"