Monika Hertwig was just one year old in 1946 when her father — Nazi commander Amon Goeth — was convicted of murdering tens of thousands of people and hanged for his crimes. Though she spent much of ...

In My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, adoptee Jennifer Teege recounts her journey of discovery after learning her biological grandfather was mass murderer Amon Goeth. (Oliver Hardt/AFP/Getty Images) ...

Jennifer Teege discovered her grandfather was the notorious Amon Goeth, the villain of Schindler's List. Jennifer Teege is a German-born black woman who — during her quest to learn more about her ...

Jennifer Teege, a 44-year-old black woman from Hamburg, was horrified to learn that her grandfather was a Nazi mass murderer. Teege's mother never told her that she's the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, ...

Jennifer Teege is the granddaughter of notorious Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth Michelle Tauber is an Executive Editorial Director at PEOPLE, overseeing Lifestyle (Parents, Health, Home, Travel, Food, ...

Monika Hertwig in front of the house where her father, Nazi commandant Amon Goeth, forced Helen Jonas to serve as a housemaid. And then she saw it. Nazi SS officer Amon Goeth, death camp commandant ...

Jennifer Teege, a 44-year-old black woman from Hamburg, Germany was horrified to learn that her grandfather was a Nazi mass murderer. As an adult, Teege happened to learn that she is the granddaughter ...

LOS ANGELES, June 29 (JTA) — Monika Hertwig was 1 when her father was hanged as a war criminal in 1946. Amon Goeth, memorably portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Steven Spielberg’s movie “Schindler’s List,” ...

Jennifer Teege was 38 when she stumbled upon a disturbing family secret: Her grandfather was sadistic Nazi commander Amon Goeth. “It was a shattering truth that actually made my identity whole,” she ...

Coming to terms with the shocking realization that a sadistic Nazi was your grandfather would be hard for anyone — but it’s even more so when you’re a black, Hebrew-speaking German. That’s the reality ...

Jennifer Teege is a German-born black woman who — during her quest to learn more about her birth family — uncovered a surprising connection to the Holocaust and Amon Goeth, the Nazi commander famously ...