Remember Amon Goth, the sadistic German concentration camp commander in Schindler's List?

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Meet his granddaughter:

[Pendrench]

1. Hi CatWoman - this is fascinating!

Thank you VERY much for posting this.

Tim

[CatWoman]

5. you're very welcome

i was fascinated by it as well.

[appalachiablue]

2. Quite a complex & tragic human story, very interesting.*AMON GOTH:

WIKI, Excerpts. Amon Leopold Göth (pronounced [ˈɡøːt]; alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946; was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.

He was tried as a war criminal after the war by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland at Kraków and was found guilty of personally ordering the imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people. He was also convicted of homicide, the first such conviction at a war crimes trial, for "personally killing, maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified number of people." He was executed by hanging not far from the former site of the Płaszów camp. The 1993 film Schindler's List, where Göth is portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, depicts his running of the Płaszów concentration camp.

In addition to his two marriages, Göth had a two-year relationship with Ruth Irene Kalder, a beautician and aspiring actress originally from Breslau (or Gleiwitz; sources vary). Kalder first met Göth in 1942 or early 1943 when she worked as a secretary at Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory in Kraków. Kalder left for Bad Tölz to be with her mother for the birth of her daughter, Monika Hertwig, on 7 November 1945. This was Göth's last child. Kalder was devastated by Göth's execution in 1946, and she took Göth's name shortly after his death.

In 2002, Hertwig published her memoirs under the title Ich muß doch meinen Vater lieben, oder? ('I do have to love my father, don't I?'). Hertwig described the subsequent life of her mother who unconditionally glorified her fiancé until confronted with his role in the Holocaust. Kalder committed suicide in 1983 shortly after giving an interview in Jon Blair's documentary Schindler. Hertwig's experiences in dealing with her father's crimes are detailed in Inheritance, a 2006 documentary directed by James Moll.

Hertwig also appeared in a documentary called Hitler's Children (2011), directed and produced by Chanoch Zeevi, an Israeli documentary filmmaker. In the documentary, Hertwig and other close relatives of infamous Nazi leaders describe their feelings, relationships, and memories of their relatives.
**Jennifer Teege, the daughter of Monika Hertwig and a Nigerian man, discovered that Göth was her grandfather through Hertwig's 2002 memoirs. Teege addressed her coming to terms with her origins in the book, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me (originally published as Amon. Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen in 2013). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_G%C3%B6th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Teege

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3. Monika Hertwig, daughter of Ruth Kalder & Amon Goth, Teege's mother

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Jonas-Rosenzweig

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4. thanks for this additional information

i have to watch in its entirety.

Wonder why she gave her daughter up for adoption??

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6. This article goes into some circumstances of Monika Hertwig's life

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when she was young, if it's accurate. She was b. 1945, and had Jennifer in 1970. Complicated life, her mother Ruth Irene Kahler (committed suicide 1983) was around then, and who knows what the real atmosphere was like in post- war Germany. Fairly mixed up I'm sure; many former Nazis were quite present there and elsewhere namely So. America. I've always have been interested in that period, majored in history and art.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/black-german-woman-learned-her-grandfather-was-a-one-of-the-worst-nazis-of-wwii.html

http://www.tpr.org/post/fronteras-extra-discovering-familys-nazi-past
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