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Join UAB’s Department of History and the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center for a Zoom lecture with Jennifer Teege as she discusses her Nazi family ties. Commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht by participating in “A Black Woman Discovers her Family’s Nazi Past,” at noon, Monday, Nov. 9, via Zoom.
It is presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of History and the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, through UAB’s Rita C. Kimerling Public History Endowment.
Jennifer Teege, an Afro-German woman and author of international bestseller “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me,” will share her story about discovering her maternal grandfather’s Nazi atrocities.
Teege was adopted into a white family and grew up in West Germany. As an adult, she discovered that her biological grandfather was Amon Göth, the commandant of a brutal concentration camp, portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in the movie “Schindler’s List.”
In her talk, she will reflect on her struggles to deal with rejection by her birth mother, her ancestry and the legacies of the Third Reich. For more information about this event, visit here.
The Rita C. Kimerling Public History Endowment helps fund initiatives that will produce an exchange of ideas among students, faculty, staff and community members for the benefit of all.