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 ...

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 ...

The former home of a Nazi concentration camp commander who tortured Jews on the property is being converted into a luxury family villa. Amon Goeth’s grim notoriety stems from the sadistic enjoyment he ...

Teege's grandmother, Ruth Irene Goeth, was the mistress of Amon Goeth and stayed with him in his villa at the Plaszow concentration camp. Before her suicide in 1983, she said she should have done more ...

Many of us think we know who we are, but every once in a while a surprise reveals we don’t know everything about our past. That’s what happened to Jennifer Teege when she discovered her grandfather ...

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