My grandfather would have shot me : a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past
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a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past
Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair ; translated by Carolin Sommer
My grandfather would have shot me
a Black woman discovers her familys Nazi past
trueTeege, Jennifer, 1970-
Sommer, Carolin
Sellmair, Nikola, 1971-
trueWorld War II
trueFamily secrets
trueGoth, Amon, 1908-1946
Concentration camp commandants -- Family relationships
Racially mixed people -- Germany -- Biography
Göth, Amon, 1908-1946 -- Family
Teege, Jennifer, 1970- -- Family
trueLife stories -- Relationships
trueConcentration camp commandants
Teege, Jennifer, 1970- -- Travel -- Poland
Teege, Jennifer, 1970- -- Homes and haunts -- Israel
German literature -- Translations into English
truePlaszow (Concentration camp)
trueLife stories -- Identity
trueMultiracial women
trueGrandfather and granddaughter
trueCoping
trueNazis
Grandchildren of war criminals -- Germany -- Biography
Płaszów (Concentration camp)
trueLife change events
trueAutobiographies and memoirs
Nazis -- Family relationships
trueTranslations -- German to English
trueBiography
trueTranslations into English
trueTranslations
trueLife stories
An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List. When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognising photos of her mother and grandmother in the book, she discovers a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List - a man known and reviled the world over. Although raised in an orphanage and eventually adopted, Teege had some contact with her biological mother and grandmother as a child. Yet neither revealed that Teege's grandfather was the Nazi "butcher of Plaszow," executed for crimes against humanity in 1946. The more Teege reads about Amon Goeth, the more certain she becomes: If her grandfather had met her-a black woman-he would have killed her. Teege's discovery sends her, at age 38, into a severe depression-and on a quest to unearth and fully comprehend her family's haunted history. Her research takes her to Krakow - to the sites of the Jewish ghetto her grandfather 'cleared' in 1943 and the Plaszow concentration camp he then commanded - and back to Israel, where she herself once attended college, learned fluent Hebrew, and formed lasting friendships. Teege struggles to reconnect with her estranged mother Monika, and to accept that her beloved grandmother once lived in luxury as Amon Goeth's mistress at Plaszow. Teege's story is co-written by award-winning journalist Nikola Sellmair, who also contributes a second, interwoven narrative that draws on original interviews with Teege's family and friends and adds historical context. Ultimately, Teege's resolute search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation
trueAmon
trueAmon.
trueSobering
CT1098.T33
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My grandfather would have shot me : a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past, Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair ; translated by Carolin Sommer
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