num_pages: 240
description: An international bestsellerthe extraordinary memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindlers List.I am the granddaughter of Amon Goeth who shot hundreds of peopleand for being black he would have shot me too. In an instant Jennifer Teeges life turns upside down; the shock of discovering her ancestry shatters her sense of self.Teege is 38married with two small childrenwhen by chance she finds a library book about her grandfather Amon Goeth. Millions of people worldwide know of him through Ralph Fiennes chilling portrayal in Steven Spielbergs film Schindlers List. Goeth was the brutal commandant of the Plaszw concentration campOskar Schindlers drinking buddy and yet his adversary. Responsible for the deaths of thousands Amon Goeth was hanged in 1946.Goeths partner Ruth Teeges much-loved grandmother committed suicide in 1983. Teege is their daughters daughter; her father is Nigerian. Raised by foster parents she grew up with no knowledge of the family secret. Now it unsettles her profoundly. What can she say to her Jewish friends or to her own children? Who is shetruly?My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is Teeges searing chronicle of grappling with her haunted past. Her research into her family takes her to Poland and to Israel. Award-winning journalist Nikola Sellmair supplies historical context in a separate interwoven narrative. Step by step horrified by her familys dark history Teege builds the story of her own liberation.
language: English
title: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
publisher: The Experiment