SS-Hauptsturmführer, SS No. – 43673. Amon Leopold Goeth, like many Nazi criminals, was born in Vienna, on December 11,1908. Before the war he was a modest clerk, with a passion for literature. He was ...

Coming to terms with the shocking realization that a sadistic Nazi was your grandfather would be hard for anyone — but it’s even more so when you’re a black, Hebrew-speaking German. That’s the reality ...

Jennifer Teege, a 44-year-old black woman from Hamburg, was horrified to learn that her grandfather was a Nazi mass murderer. Teege's mother never told her that she's the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, ...

Jennifer Teege discovered her grandfather was the notorious Amon Goeth, the villain of Schindler's List. Jennifer Teege is a German-born black woman who — during her quest to learn more about her ...

In My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, adoptee Jennifer Teege recounts her journey of discovery after learning her biological grandfather was mass murderer Amon Goeth. (Oliver Hardt/AFP/Getty Images) ...

When Jennifer Teege saw ‘Schindler’s List’ as a student in Israel, she was moved and horrified. But she didn’t realize she was part of the story. Now, the book that explains it is causing a firestorm ...

The world observed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 and, while people remembered the day when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviets on the same day in ...

LOS ANGELES, June 29 (JTA) — Monika Hertwig was 1 when her father was hanged as a war criminal in 1946. Amon Goeth, memorably portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Steven Spielberg’s movie “Schindler’s List,” ...

Amon Goeth was an SS offer in the German army during World War II who oversaw operations at a concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. In 1946, Goeth was found guilty of murder of the thousands who were ...