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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.
On 13 March and 14 March 1943, the Nazis carried out the final 'liquidation' of the ghetto under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth. Those deemed able to work were transported to the Płaszów concentration camp. Some 2,000 Jews unable to move or attempting to run were killed in the streets and in their homes.
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past (German release title: Amon. Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen ) is a memoir by German writer Jennifer Teege . It covers her discovery that her grandfather was Amon Göth , nicknamed the "Butcher of Płaszów " and infamously depicted in Steven Spielberg 's ...
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.
Date of birth Date of death Age at death Role Fate Adolf Hitler: April 20, 1889: April 30, 1945: 56 years, 10 days Leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich. Chancellor of Germany Führer. Committed suicide by gunshot [1] [2] Heinrich Himmler: October 7, 1900: May 23, 1945: 44 years, 228 days Reichsführer-SS. Chief of German Police Reich ...
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]
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.