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May 3, 2024 · According to survivor Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, who had worked as a maid for Płaszów commandant Amon Goeth, "It all started with the movie Schindler's List. The movie Schindler's List brought an awakening. Before the movie, we didn't talk about it... nobody wanted to know. And we couldn't talk. Somehow, when the movie came out, it was an awakening.
Jun 15, 2006 · Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig was picked among the prisoners by Goeth as his maid and was brutalized for two years. Now, more than 60 years later, the two women are the unlikely protagonists of the ...
Dec 9, 2008 · Helen Jonas, left, meets Monika Hertwig, Goeth's daughter, in Poland in "Inheritance." Credit... Don Holtz. The film, by James Moll, is reminiscent of one of those talk-show reunions of long ...
Jun 29, 2006 · Monika had seen on German TV camp survivor Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, who was interned during World War II at Kraków–Płaszów and forced to work as a maid for Amon Goeth. Moll consented to arrange for the two women to meet and film their encounter.
Apr 26, 2022 · The discovery came like a bolt from the blue in the summer of 2008, when she was 38 years old, as she relates in the memoir “Amon,” which was published in German in 2013 (co-authored with the German journalist Nikola Sellmair), and is due out in English this April under the title “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past.”
Dec 12, 2008 · Also in 2003, Moll met Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a survivor of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland, which Goeth ruled “like an emperor” for 500 days. Goeth singled her out at age 14 and ...
Jun 30, 2006 · Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, then 17, was picked among the prisoners as Goeth’s maid and was terrorized by him for two years. She survived, thanks to Oskar Schindler, and lives in the United States.
