Jennifer Teege

JENNIFER TEEGE                                                                 Monday, April 27                                         7 pm, Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel

Jennifer Teege, a German-born black woman, tells the story behind her internationally bestselling memoir, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past. In it, she reveals how she discovered that her grandfather was Amon Goeth,  the vicious Nazi commandant chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in "Schindler's List." Although raised in an orphanage and eventually adopted, Teege had some contact with her biological mother and grandmother as a child. Yet neither revealed that Teege's grandfather was the Nazi "butcher of Plaszow," executed for crimes against humanity in 1946.  Teege's story is cowritten by award-winning journalist Nikola Sellmair, who also contributes a second, interwoven narrative that draws on original interviews with Teege's family and friends and adds historical context. Click here for an interview with Ms. Teege on BBC and here for an article about her book published earlier this year in Haaretz.