host: you mentioned plaszow, what is that? jennifer: it is a concentration camp run by my grandfather, and my grandmother and grandfather stayed there for a period of, i think, several years, together. brian: back to the chart, right below that is woman whose name is monika hertwig. who is she? jennifer: monika is my biological mother. that is the name she took when she was married, but she was born as monika goeth. she is the daughter of them. brian: did you know her? jennifer: yes. she was my biological mother. she gave me up for adoption, but we were in contact for the first years of my life. she gave me to an orphanage when i was four weeks old, but only at seven years old we lost contact because i was adopted by a white german family. brian: have you seen her in the last seven years? jennifer: i did. brian: where does she live? jennifer: in germany. brian: where was she born? jennifer: she was born in germany. brian: let's go back to the chart, off to the side -- we don't have a name for this. your biological father. he w

maybe some had lost relatives even in plaszow. so, how would they accept it?ot me, but accept the fact? eventually, i understood that although i was scared, i had to share. this is what friendship is about. if you have a friend, you share everything, or you try to share the important things in your life. i told them. it was heartbreaking, because what happened was they were full of empathy, and they did not cry for themselves or for their family, they cried for me. host: i don't know if you want to answer this, but you dedicate this book for the letter y. who is y? ms. teege: there is a reason why i only wrote y. i will not tell it to you now, i will tell it to you afterward, but i can say that it is a family member that is very dear to me. host: you also said, you had a period of time when you could not stand the smell of beer. why? ms. teege: i think it was in connection to my early childhood experiences. my mother was married to a man after she separated from my biological father who was abusive and had a problem with alcohol. this reminded me of my childho