Jennifer Teege, “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me”

Put up for adoption when she was a month old, Teege is the daughter of a Nigerian father and a German mother, whose own father was Amon Goeth, the Nazi commandant responsible for clearing the Krakow ghetto and whose brutality was a focus of Schindler’s List. A stunning collision of history and identity, Teege’s memoir asks profound questions about both.

Jennifer Teege, granddaughter of a Nazi war criminal on Talking Germany

At the age of 38, Jennifer Teege discovered by chance that she is the granddaughter of Amon Göth, the notorious Nazi concentration camp commander depicted in the movie ‘Schindler’s List.’ On Talking Germany, she looks back at the day her life changed, recalling her childhood in a home and growing up in a foster family.