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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

Name: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
Author: Jennifer Teege

Auteur: Jennifer Teege

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jennifer Teege Nikola Sellmair

Engels
Paperback
9781473616257
24 september 2015
240 pagina's

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An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.

'A powerful account of Teege's struggle for resolution and redemption.' Independent

An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.

When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognising photos of her mother and grandmother in the book, she discovers a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List - a man known and reviled the world over.

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 Plaszów," executed for crimes against humanity in 1946. The more Teege reads about Amon Goeth, the more certain she becomes: If her grandfather had met her-a black woman-he would have killed her.

Teege's discovery sends her, at age 38, into a severe depression-and on a quest to unearth and fully comprehend her family's haunted history. Her research takes her to Krakow - to the sites of the Jewish ghetto her grandfather 'cleared' in 1943 and the Plaszów concentration camp he then commanded - and back to Israel, where she herself once attended college, learned fluent Hebrew, and formed lasting friendships. Teege struggles to reconnect with her estranged mother Monika, and to accept that her beloved grandmother once lived in luxury as Amon Goeth's mistress at Plaszów.

Teege's story is co-written 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. Ultimately, Teege's resolute search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 24 september 2015
Aantal pagina's: 240
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Jennifer Teege
Tweede Auteur: Nikola Sellmair
Verteller: Adjoa Andoh
Hoofduitgeverij: Hodder & Stoughton

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler: Carolin Sommer

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Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 168 g

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EAN: 9781473616257

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Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

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Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Onderwerp: Holocaust & Genociden, Genealogie
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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