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Author Teege, Jennifer, 1970- author.

Title My grandfather would have shot me : a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past / Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair ; translated by Carolin Sommer.

Publication Info. New York : The Experiment, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 GDL Central Library Non-Fiction    929.2094 TEE    Available
Description 221 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Translation of: Amon : mein Grossvater hätte mich erschossen.
Bibliography Includes filmography and bibliographical references (pages 217-221).
Contents The discovery -- Me, granddaughter of a mass murderer -- Master of the Płaszów Concentration Camp : my grandfather Amon Goeth -- The commandant's mistress : my grandmother Ruth Irene Kalder -- Living with the dead : my mother Monika Goeth -- Grandchildren of the victims : my friends in Israel -- Flowers in Krakow.
Summary "The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted [by Ralph Fiennes] in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Teege, Jennifer, 1970-
Teege, Jennifer, 1970- -- Family.
Göth, Amon, 1908-1946 -- Family.
Teege, Jennifer, 1970- -- Travel -- Poland.
Teege, Jennifer, 1970- -- Homes and haunts -- Israel.
Płaszów (Concentration camp).
Grandchildren of war criminals -- Germany -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Germany -- Biography.
Nazis -- Family relationships.
Concentration camp commandants -- Family relationships.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Sellmair, Nikola, 1971- author.
Sommer, Carolin, translator.
Added Title Amon. English
ISBN 9781615192533 (hbk.)
1615192530 (hbk.)
9781615192540 (ebk.)

 
    
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