Wednesday, February 28, 2018
After Helen meets with Monika
After Meeting with Monika, both ladies went on to share their stories with the whole world in the documentary inheritance. Helen was reluctant at first because she was the daughter of the mn who abused her and killed others when he was still alive an running the Krakow-Płaszow concentration camp. Monika had grown up being told that he father was a great man who dies fighting for his country on the battlefield. It wasn´t until her mother told her that she would die like her father that she found out the truth from her grandmother the man he actually was. Later in life wanting to learn more about her father she decided to watch Schindler's list in which she learned a whole lot of information regarding her father. Having been shown all this information she became mad at Spielberg for telling her through the film what her father had done. The film and a holocaust survivor documentary helped reminded her of Helen who she had been told about a few times growing up but never met and her house. After they meet Helen goes on to say,¨Monika, she accepted the fact that her father was a killer, but she still wanted to defend him. She said to me that, "They all were doing it." I said, "But he was the one that gave all the orders." So, it's just like she still protected…"They all were doing it." It just, like, annoyed me, you know? It's hard for me to be with her because she reminds me a lot of, you know…she's tall, she has certain features. And I hated him so. But she is a victim. And I think it's important because she is willing to tell the story in Germany. She told me people don't want to know, they want to go on with their lives. And I think it's very important because there's a lot of children of perpetrators, and I think she's a brave person to go on talking about it because it's difficult.¨
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