"Liebe Mutti is the true story of Jerzy Pindera, a Polish Catholic reserve officer in Sachsenhausen, one of the first concentrations camps built to hold political prisoners, located just outside Berlin. This memoir is an observation of the complexities of concentration camp life and society. Pindera, who arrived at the camp condemned to be worked to death, gradually rose to a position of prominence in the camp structure. During his five years of incarceration at Sachsenhausen, Pindera wrote powerfully about his experiences in a series of "fragments," each of which recalled events of specific aspects of his internment. Using those fragments - as well as the results of extensive interviews with him prior to his death and letters he wrote to his mother while imprisoned - editor Lynne Taylor has woven together a compelling story of life in Sachsenhausen."--BOOK JACKET.