Yet neither revealed that Teege’s grandfather was the Nazi “butcher of Plaszów,” executed for crimes against humanity in 1946.
Recognizing 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.Īlthough raised in an orphanage and eventually adopted, Teege had some contact with her biological mother and grandmother as a child. 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. The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “haunting and unflinching” ( Washington Post), “unforgettable” ( Publishers Weekly), and “stunning” ( Booklist).
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