My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: The Story of the Granddaughter of Amon Goeth, Commandant of the Plaszow Concentration Camp. Tighe D., Sellmair N.

Abstract for the book "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: The Story of the Granddaughter of Amon Goeth, Commandant of the Plaszow Concentration Camp" by D. Tighe, N. Sellmair: At 38, Jennifer Tighe, the daughter of a German and a Nigerian, learns that she is the granddaughter of a Nazi criminal. Millions of people know the story of the cruel concentration camp commandant from "Schindler's List." A sadist who loved to shoot Jews from the balcony of his villa for fun. How can Jennifer, who studied and lived in Israel for several years, now look her friends in the eyes, knowing that each of them had a relative who died in Nazi concentration camps, perhaps even in Plaszow itself? How can she cope with the feeling of guilt for the crimes committed by her own grandfather? Jennifer Teege rethinks her childhood and youth, explores her family past, and finds the answers she needs so much. "When it comes to her family history, Jennifer's hands start to shake. She cries. The whole world has heard of her grandfather. He was the cruel commandant of the concentration camp from Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. Amon Goeth was the drinking buddy and antipode of Oskar Schindler, his peer. A murderer of Jews versus a savior of Jews. The scene from the film in which Amon Goeth, warming up in the morning, shoots at prisoners from the balcony of his villa has been immortalized in cultural memory. "Unique photos from the author's personal archive, as well as from the archive of the Holocaust History Museum Yad Vashem. "When I learned that my grandmother tried to help the prisoners, at first I felt relieved: well, she couldn't be in league with my grandfather, she was on the side of good. And now I feel ashamed of these thoughts in front of the victims of Amon Goeth." Read more…