{"id":1646,"date":"2017-09-06T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2017-09-06T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T21:33:52","slug":"my-grandfather-would-have-shot-me-a-black-woman-discovers-her-familys-nazi-past-12618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/2017\/09\/06\/my-grandfather-would-have-shot-me-a-black-woman-discovers-her-familys-nazi-past-12618\/","title":{"rendered":"My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family&#8217;s Nazi Past (1\/26\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong style=\"font-family: inherit\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1648 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/teege-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>January 26th at 7 p.m. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt University<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Jennifer Teege, an international best-selling author, will be the HLS keynote speaker for spring semester. At age thirty-eight Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf having no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in the book, she discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in <em>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s grandfather was the Nazi &#8220;butcher of Plaszow,&#8221; 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 &#8211; a black woman &#8211; he would have killed her.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Teege will share her emotional pilgrimage as she wrestled with depression, race, and identity, and what it takes to be a liberated human being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 26th at 7 p.m. Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Teege, an international best-selling author, will be the HLS keynote speaker for spring semester. At age thirty-eight Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf having no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/teege1.png","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}