Jennifer Teege

Jennifer Teege
Born	1973 Munich
Nationality	German
Ethnicity	Nigerian-German
Education	Sorbonne
Genre	memoir

Jennifer Teege (born 1973, Munich) is a German writer. Her grandfather is Amon Goeth. Her book, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me was a New York Times bestseller.

Life

Teege, who was born Jennifer Goeth to a Nigerian father and a German mother, grew up in foster care.^[1] She was adopted at the age of seven.^[2] Her grandmother was Ruth Irene Goeth.^[3] Teege studied at the Sorbonne, and learned Hebrew in Israel.^[4]

She found out about her family history, by reading her mother's biography in the Hamburg library.^[5][6]

Works

• Jennifer Teege; Nikola Sellmair (15 April 2015). My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past. Workman Publishing Company. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-1-61519-253-3.^{[7][8][9][10]}

References

1. "My Nazi grandfather, Amon Goeth, would have shot me". BBC. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
2. "Jennifer Teege Holocaust Remembrance Day Program". Sixth & I. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
3. Jennifer Teege (April 7, 2015). My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me. Workman Publishing. pp. 8–9. ISBN 1615192549. Retrieved 23 October 2015 – via Google Books preview.
4. (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "Jennifer Teege, Granddaughter of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth | guest list | DW.COM | 01.12.2013". DW.COM. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
5. Don Snyder (5 March 2014). "My Nazi Grandfather Would Have Shot Me". NBC News. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
6. "How an Author Is Coping with the Discovery That Her Grandpa Was a Nazi". Retrieved 2015-09-17.
7. "‘My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me’: a Nazi in the family". Retrieved 2015-09-17.
8. Philyaw, Deesha (2015-06-05). "When the skeleton in the family closet is a Nazi". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
9. "What's It Like To Be Black And Have A Famous Nazi Grandfather?". Retrieved 2015-09-17.
10. "Jennifer Teege: My Nazi grandfather would have shot me | The Sunday Times". www.thesundaytimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-17.

External links

• Neo-Griot interview with Jennifer Teege, author of ‘My grandfather would have shot me’.
• Q&A with Jennifer Teege (August 12, 2015), Jennifer Teege talked about her book.