My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Family History of Amon Göth, Commandant of Plaszow

At 38, Jennifer Tiege, the daughter of a German and a Nigerian, learns that she is the granddaughter of a Nazi criminal. Millions of people know the story of the cruel camp commandant from “Schindler’s List”—a sadist who, for entertainment, loved to shoot Jews from the balcony of a villa. How can Jennifer—who studied and lived in Israel for several years—look her friends in the eyes now, knowing that each of them has someone from their family who died in Nazi concentration camps, maybe even in Plaszów itself? How can she cope with the guilt for the crimes committed by her own grandfather? Jennifer Tiege rethinks her childhood and youth, investigates her family past, and finds the answers she needs so badly.