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Amon Leopold Göth (German: ⓘ; alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal.He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.
Amon Göth's villa remains there. Another small monument, located near the opposite end of the site, stands in memory of the first execution of (non-Jewish) Polish prisoners in 1939. A version of the camp is featured in the movie Schindler's List (1993), about the life of Oskar Schindler.
Amon Göth – The commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, he was sentenced to death on September 5, 1946, and executed by hanging in Kraków on September 13, 1946. Konstantin Kammerhofer – The Higher SS and Police Leader in Croatia , he was convicted of war crimes in absentia by Yugoslavia but was never extradited by Germany.
Inheritance is a 2006 American documentary film about Monika Hertwig , also known as Monika Christiane Knauss, [1] the daughter of Ruth Irene Kalder and Amon Göth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp. Monika Hertwig was 10 months old when her father was hanged in 1946 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
After the war, Sternlicht testified against Amon Göth at his trial in Kraków, where he was sentenced to death and executed. She met Joseph Jonas two days after liberation, married him and emigrated with her family to the United States in 1946. [4] Płaszów Memorial, where Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig and Monika Hertwig met for the first time.
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Teege, who was born Jennifer Göth to a Nigerian father and an Austrian-German mother, grew up in foster care. [1] She was adopted at the age of seven. [2] Her grandmother was Ruth Irene Kalder [], who had a two-year relationship with Amon Göth until the end of the Second World War, and with whom she had a daughter, Monika Hertwig [], who was born in November 1945 and whom he never met. [3]
UPDATE: Asif Kapadia has apologized after the Grierson Trust rescinded the patronage conferred on the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning British filmmaker over social media posts they have deemed antisemitic.