Jennifer Teege Livres

Abandonnée par sa mère à tout juste un mois, ce n'est qu'à 38 ans, et par le plus grand des hasards, que Jennifer Teege découvre le secret de sa famille : elle est la petite-fille du commandant de camp de concentration Amon Göth, bien connu grâce au film de Steven Spielberg La liste de Schindler. Responsable de la mort de milliers de personnes, Amon Göth a été pendu en 1946. Jennifer Teege est la fille d'une Allemande, la fille d'Amon Göth et d'un Nigérien. Elevée dans une famille adoptive, elle a fait ses études en Israël. Avec cette découverte, elle est soudain confrontée à un secret qui ne la quitte pas un instant : comment vivre avec cet héritage familial ? Que dire à ses amis juifs ? A ses propres enfants ? Elle entame alors un profond travail de mémoire et reprend contact avec sa mère. Secondée par la journaliste Nikola Sellmair, elle part à la recherche de son histoire, se rend en Pologne, en Israël. Pas à pas, le choc que lui a causé la découverte des tréfonds du passé familial se transforme en une libération. Le récit de cet incroyable secret de famille décrit brillamment les conséquences dévastatrices des actes des nazis sur leurs enfants et leurs petits-enfants.

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?