Six decades after those horrid years, Jonas received a letter from Monika Hertwig, Goeth's daughter. She wanted to meet her.

She was 25 when she met the married Amon Goeth and was smitten. “My grandmother, as I write about her, is the closest I let the reader look inside myself,” Teege says.

Amon Goeth was notorious for his brutality at a concentration camp. He was portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in "Schindler's List." Wikimedia Commons ...

Amon Leopold Goeth (sometimes spelled Amon Göth) was born on December 11, 1908, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only child of Berta Schwendt Goeth and Amon Franz Goeth, a Catholic couple who made a ...

She received sporadic visits from her mother, Monika, and her grandmother, Ruth, who took Goeth's name after his execution for war crimes in 1946.

In the pages of the book, Teege was horrified to learn her maternal grandfather, Monika’s father, was none other than the sadistic Nazi concentration camp commandant, Amon Goeth, depicted in the ...

I remember standing in front of the mirror in my bathroom, holding a small photograph of Amon Goeth and looking to see if there are any similarities between the two of us – and I did find some.

In her late 30s, Jennifer Teege made the surprising discovery that she was the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, the Nazi commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Poland. She wrote about her ...

The film crew had taken Monika Hertwig and Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a Jewish maid who had firsthand knowledge of Amon Goeth’s cruelty, back to Plaszow. Teege recalls that it was impossible for her to ...

Her grandfather, the one who would not have tolerated her mixed-race origins, was Amon Göth, the Nazi commander of the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow. He’s probably best known thanks to Ralph ...