Jennifer Teege Knihy

„Jsem vnučka Amona Götha, muže, který postřílel stovky lidí – a protože jsem černá, podle něj podřadné rasy, nejspíš by zabil i mě…,“ říká Jennifer Teegeová, jejíž život se radikálně změnil po odhalení rodinného tajemství. Ve svých osmatřiceti letech objevila na fotografii svou matku a dědečka, což rozbilo její identitu a představu o sobě samé. Do té doby znala Amona Götha pouze z filmu Schindlerův seznam, kde měl tvář Ralpha Fiennese. Brutální velitel koncentračního tábora Plaszow, Göth zabil tisíce nevinných lidí a v roce 1946 byl popraven. Jeho životní družkou byla Ruth Irene Kalderová, Jennifeřina babička, která se o jeho psy starala, a v roce 1983 spáchala sebevraždu. Jennifer, která byla po narození odložena do ústavu, vyrůstala u adoptivních rodičů. Když se konfrontuje s temnou rodinnou minulostí, rozhodne se pátrat po svých kořenech a setká se se svou matkou. V doprovodu novinářky Nikoly Sellmairové objevuje rodinnou historii a navštěvuje místa, kde se události odehrály, v Polsku i Izraeli. Každý krok jí pomáhá přecházet od původního šoku a znechucení k znovuzískání svobody.

In this powerful story of discovery, a black woman learns by chance the truth about her family's secret Nazi past. Jennifer Teege is 38, married, a mother of two, and ten years into a career in advertising when by chance she pulls a book from the library shelf. The book is about her own family, and its contents will profoundly change her life and lead her down a painful path of self-discovery. Jennifer discovers that her grandfather is Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi concentration camp commandant who oversaw the clearing of the Krakow ghetto in 1943 as well as the Plaszow concentration camp. He shot hundreds of people and was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands more. Millions of people worldwide know of him through Ralph Fiennes' chilling portrayal in Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. Guilty of genocide and war crimes, Goeth was hanged in 1946. Teege is his African-German granddaughter. Raised by foster parents, she grew up with no knowledge of the family secret. Now, it unsettles her profoundly. What can she say to her Jewish friends, or to her own children? Who is she - truly? My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is Teege's searing chronicle of grappling with a haunted past that is suddenly, irrevocably hers. Research into her family takes her to Poland and to Israel, where she had lived for several years in her twenties, and learned fluent Hebrew. Her story was co-written by award-winning journalist Nikola Sellmair who also supplies historical context in a separate, interwoven narrative. Step by step, horrified by her family's dark history, Teege builds the story of her own liberation

Kate Wright is, it seems, a tramp. Dirty and emaciated, walking through a town centre until she is stopped by a kind policeman. Through Kate's interview with the detective, she tells her shocking story. She has been a prisoner for several years, held and tormented by a man, a 'friend', who keeps her caged in one room and her friend Lizzie in another. Greg Stamper, her kidnapper, maintains he has done nothing wrong. Kate is his friend; Lizzie was his friend and he was only helping their families - and others. As Kate's story, then that of her captor, unfold and the police visit the place where she has been held, the true depth of the horror she has endured starts to reveal itself when Kate and Stamper become allies. Who is telling the truth? Is Stamper a fantasist who loves ruining lives, or is he really the smartest person in the room?