Moderator---Shellie
Meet Jennifer Teege, a bi-racial German woman who was adopted at age 7. She had been placed in an orphanage at about a month old but was still visited by her birth mother and grandmother through those years and retained her surname of Goeth. She had especially fond memories of the grandmother who--as she was to find out--lived and loved alongside of a brutal self-serving Nazi.
At age 38, she picked up a book at the library written by her mother--a book she knew nothing about. The title was"'I Have to Love My Father, Don't I ?" And mom's father would be her grandfather. And grandpa--according to the rest of the book's title--just happened to be a Concentration Camp Commandant during the Holocaust.
Amon Goeth was in charge of the liquidation of ghettos in Poland. He discovered the 'get rich quick' scheme this job allowed him. Jews offered him their valuables like furs, china and jewelry for a chance to get into a forced labor camp. In March of 1943, over a 2 day period, he had 2000 killed and another 4000 sent to Auschwitz as he cleared the ghetto of Krakow. (Goeth is in Schinler's List and is portrayed by Ralph Fiennes.)
From being bi-racial in Germany, to being adopted, to finding out your roots, the book also offers plenty of history and a look inside some of the ghettos and extermination camps. Before Jennifer found out who her notorious grandfather was, she lived in Israel for a time and had many Jewish friends. Now she had to go to them with her newly found family history. The book not only serves as a reminder of the Holocaust and the victims, it also tells the story what it was like to be an ancestor of one of the most depraved members of the Nazi regime.
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Chicken, mashed potatoes/gravy, coleslaw,
green beans, biscuits, and chocolate/peanut
butter cookies.
"An in depth look at the cruelty of the Nazis."
Shellie
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"Finding out your past and having to explore exactly who you are."
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