Inheritance (2006)

Directed by

James Moll

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman confronts the truth about her father who was a Nazi concentration camp commandant. She meets a survivor who was held there and knew her father personally.

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What happens

Inheritance is a 2006 American documentary film about Monika Hertwig, also known as Monika Christiane Knauss, 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. She discovered the truth about him only as a young adult, because her own mother told her in childhood that he was a good man and a war hero. The film centers around her meeting a Holocaust survivor, Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, who was interned at Płaszów and personally knew Göth. The film was produced for PBS by James Moll, film director, documentary producer and the Founding Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute focusing on testimonies of the Holocaust survivors. In 2009, Inheritance was nominated by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and received an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Interview. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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