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''Inheritance'' is a 2006 documentary film about Monika Hertwig a.k.a. Monika Christiane Knauss, the daughter of Ruth Irene Kalder and Amon Goeth, Commandant of Kraków-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 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. ==Synopsis== In the documentary, Monika Hertwig travels to Płaszów on the outskirts of Kraków, Poland in an attempt to learn more about her father, SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Goeth, who was portrayed in Spielberg's ''Schindler's List''. The film had deeply affected Monika, and she claims to have hated Spielberg after watching it. 〔 In her search for more information, Hertwig has a meeting at the scene of the former concentration camp with Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, the Holocaust survivor born in Kraków, who was interned during World War II at Kraków–Płaszów, and forced to work as a maid for Amon Goeth. More than 60 years after his execution, the two women first met there in person. Amon Goeth had two Jewish housemaids who stayed with him in the villa: Helen ("Lena") Hirsch (now Helen Horowitz) and Helen ("Susanna") Sternlicht (now Helen Jonas, formerly Helen Rosenzweig). As part of Monika Hertwig's search for more answers, she was given the opportunity to meet the woman from the Kraków Ghetto enslaved and preyed upon by her father during the Holocaust in Poland.〔Allentown Productions Retrieved April 2, 2013.〕 He shot Helen Jonas' boyfriend Adam dead in front of her.〔 Amon Goeth was a married man, with a wife Anni, and two children in Vienna,〔 when he met Monika's young, attractive mother Ruth Kalder – a beautician and aspiring actress originally from Gliwice (or Wrocław, sources vary) – through his friend Oskar Schindler in Kraków in 1942 (or early in 1943). She worked as secretary at Schindler's factory at that time. The two had an ostentatious camp affair which Goeth's Austrian wife knew nothing about. They were partying, playing tennis and horseback riding together. Ruth saw him hunting humans (in fact, he killed hundreds), but in her 1983 interview with the BBC she attempted to defend him nevertheless, she was shown the transcripts of his trial, and committed suicide a day later.〔 Monika, who was 37 years old at the time of the interview, thus first heard her mother speak frankly on the subject, to total strangers.〔 Monika Hertwig, Goeth's illegitimate child, and his camp maid Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, met for the first time in 2004.〔 Hertwig had requested the meeting with Jonas, but Jonas was hesitant because her memories of the past were so traumatic. She eventually agreed after Hertwig wrote to her: "We have to do it for the murdered people."〔 Jonas shared her sentiment and offered to meet at the Płaszów Memorial Monument in Poland and tour Goeth's villa with her for the documentary ''Inheritance''; her own husband had committed suicide in 1980 suffering from survivor guilt syndrome. James Moll, the film's director and an associate of Steven Spielberg, brought the women together in front of a camera in order to make his film.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inheritance (2006 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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