Inheritance - Beyond the Film With James, Monika and Helen - POV | PBS 

I'm sure Helena never imagined that Amon Goeth's daughter would one day comfort her in the very house he tormented her in. Their courage is admirable.

"A son is not responsible for the crimes ofthe father"- Jon Snow

Look at the body language!! Monika clearly feels guilt and shame. It's not her sin. Bless her.

I feel so bad for Monika. She looks like she’s carrying a heavy load because of her father. She’s totally innocent.

I read that Monika has had great struggles with alcoholabuse. Who can blame her, w that monsterfather and her mother committing suicide? I feel so sad for her...

Rest in peace, helen! You were a strong, brave & beautiful woman! Monika you are a beautiful, strong woman, too. You are nothing like your father! His sins & wrongdoings are not a part of you. I pray you will find peace, monika. I pray for all the holocaust survivors & their family. And; I pray for the millions of beautiful people who lost their lives in the holocaust. What a horrific time in our history. I pray we don't repeat the past.♥️

Monika carries a heavy burden of her father, but his evil actions do not define her. I hope she has found peace.

Monika seems like a good person. I can't stand when people try to blame her for things that had nothing to do with her.

If you see both of these ladies, you all can see who’s VICTORIOUS, Helen Jonas a survivor, hardened her heart because of the evil things she’s experienced and seen but Monika also is in pain here her body language looks like she’s gonna melt anytime oh God bless both of you

Monika wants connection because she knows so little of what went on at the camp involving her father, and she wants to know more. Helen, in contrast, knows too much about what happened, and wants to avoid being reminded of it.

I am a bit floored by some of the comments below. I have watched extensive interviews of both of these women. I think it is fair to say that most of us have ZERO concept of what either of them has been through or what it is like to live inside of their skin each day. I don't see a need to compare suffering, but I do find it rather offensive that people will put one down in order to support the pain of the other. To see that someone below wrote that another commenter should die faster is extremely bewildering, when the whole subject revolves around the effects of someone who made it his life's work to make a multitude of people "die faster." Come ON, People. Please. Please show a modicum or respect to someone that lived to see human beings shredded to death by attack dogs on the veranda daily, and more. I think of all of the relatives I have seen interviewed, Monika seems to have had a very hard time wrapping her head around what her father actually did. We are all wired differently. I can see from her interviews that she has really struggled to reconcile the idea she had of her parents being one way growing up and believing whatever they told her; and what she learned about her father later. People process very differently, especially traumatic information. She is not her father, that is for sure. I suspect some of the public gets angry upon hearing what sounds like denial; but wherever she is at in this process, she seems to be doing the best that she can. I am very lucky that I do not have to have lived with the burdens that either of these women bear.

both very damaged people, and both very brave to speak, monika comes across as quite fragile, i hope both can find peace.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have had a father in the SS, much less one made infamous by a very popular movie. What a legacy. Helen is such an amazing woman. Here's wishing them both peace.

Monika's daughter Jennifer, who she gave up for adoption, is a kind, well spoken person. I hope one day Monika builds a bridge with her daughter. Her daughter is lovely and I think if built a relationship it would bring some healing to Monika. It is her father who did the crimes, not her. Her mother was terrible to her as well. So sad for Monika what her parents did to her. 😥

Helen lived to be 93 before she passed away, hopefully at least part of her life was worth living.

Poor Monika just gets more and more beaten down throughout this interview. She could've gone off and never spoken about her father, but she's publicly bearing the family's shame. People are still bundling her with her father.

This is how we learn, it is so important this open examination of history happens.

Poor Monika, she will never be free of him. She can’t forget and is reminded by the victims who understandably will never be free of him either.... I hope you can find peace Monika.

Monica must have agreed to this presentation so must have felt she was up to the undertaking on an emotional level. I suspect she has come to terms with her family's past and has an inner strength to allow her to cope with such a public scrutiny as this video. I do feel for her, she has a burden to bear that most of us will never have to endure. More power to you Monica. Helen Jonas and Helen Hirsch did what they were forced to endure at the hands of their captor to survive, and did manage to survive the war when so many millions of innocents did not. May you Rest in Peace Helen.

Its a draining of emotions to constantly live out someone else's sin. Monika can never explain away the suffering and pain her father caused, regardless of how much sympathy and sorrow she tries to express. Because in Monika the victims will always see and be reminded that a part of him is still alive and striving.

I can’t believe everyone pitying Monica more than Helena. She heard what he did, but Helena lived through it. What does everyone expect, for them to be friends? Does everyone want Helena to forgive and forget? I wouldn’t. That seems to be what Monica is looking for. That is not reality. Get real people.

Like most people already said, you can see both of these women have been severely traumatized, obviously. It's a shame that predators like Goeth have resounding effects on their victims, even after death. The documentary was amazing. I have such sympathy for Helena, who is visibly retraumatized by Monika, even though she knows it's not Monika's fault and I see the trauma in Monika wanting to make it better, but not knowing how, and feeling guilty but not understanding why, not ever being able to understand who she really is because of her connection to a monster. Ironically it would be the biggest slap in the face to Goethe for these women to be friends, for his daughter to embrace one of his victims and reject him. Well, theoretically, but perhaps a psychopath doesn't even have the capacity to feel slighted. I hope they can stay in touch and develop a friendship, but not at the expense of retraumatizing Helena over and over. I would be so interested to hear what Gabor Mate would say about this situation, and any input he could give on healing. He's the first person that comes to mind. Interestingly, I see two women, who both lost their parents to murder in a way, only one of them had loving parents and the other had a psychopath and a narcissist. One had to live through the horrors of being a slave and torture and being helpless, and the other had to live through growing up without any love and a lot of self hatred. I'm not trying to compare the trauma, just to relate it. I think that what Helena has as a result of this that Monika doesn't, is a greater sense of self. I think that's why Monika was in such wonder at how Helena had survived, commenting in the film to Helena about how she never could have endured such a situation. I think that Helena had a good foundation of love an support, that was tragically ripped away from her, but that carried her through the most difficult atrocities. Even though Monika never had to experience the holocaust, there is a deep sense of sadness that she never had that to begin with. I'm really proud of both of them!

Any shame does not belong to Monica one bit. Her fathers actions have nothing to do with her - she is very much a victim and arguably has suffered more

My heart goes to both of them and I wish a therapist/ mediator for both was present even just holding both their hands ❤️ Provide opportunity for both to heal such as hugs, words of affirmation, puppies etc. something. Helen needs to feel safe and not attacked even by Monikas appearance. A mediator that can help Monika express her feelings of her love for life, people and help her empathize but not getting trapped in victim mindset for being daughter of Nazi

Brave ladies bless them both

Silence is not an option when it comes to genocide.

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I feel for Monica. I agree she isn't her father.

There was/is [?] a Video on RU-vid about something called The Paperclip Project which is really worth looking at. It refers to a project undertaken by a High School in rural and insulated America to broaden the understanding of the students in relation to the Holocaust.

where can i find the film online?

Why does no one ask what happen to her half brother and sister from her father’s second wife Anna Geiger ?

Oskar Schindler had a choice and he used it wisely.

you see how Minika almost keeps her face hidden with her hair. She still feels the shame

You are not your father monika. He wasn’t even there for you throughout your childhood stage to begin with. I wanna hug you monika 🤎

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I feel for Monika it was not her fault! Helen is my hero I mean we are talking about the boogieman (Goth) children are so afraid to look under their beds and closets at night afraid of the boogieman. but Helen had to live with him, it was a miracle not by chance by Gods grace for Helen to lives to tell the tell

So brave and honest. Praying for the healing power of God to overtake you and bring full and complete healing and recovery in the mighty name of Jesus! Thank you for sharing the truth no matter how horrible. People must understand the truth that evil exists and CAN overtake people if ALLOWED TO...

Both stories are horrific, I'm not on one side more than the other at all but man, I feel so bad for Monika she feels she has to carry her fathers crimes as her own. 😢

Monika could not control who her father was. Helen is holding a grudge with Monika.

Inheritance as full film is not available online.

It was a rough life for both. They were dealt a lot because of ONE MAN. Now, it's a matter of what you do with that. No one blames Monika. She blames herself.

Monika guilt and shame, might be due to have a mixed race child who she gave up at birth, Her daughter is half Nigerian, fascinating story. a shame when her daughter reached out to her and she did not want to be in contact with her daughter.

Helen says she doesn't hate and we have choices she chose to take her pain on monaka I feel so very sorry for theses two tortured people monaka has suffered for something that isn't her fault Helen has suffered and it wasn't her fault I hope Helen learned before she died to except that monaka is also a victim great blessings on both

helan you are heard. monica you are also heard. tears come. cant say things are equal. thats impossible. but i have empathy for you both. helan suffered insufferables. monica you suffered lies. one is literally life and death or worse. the other is the option of parental goodness versus badness thru verbal fantasy. i will say you helen are a striking beauty seemingly unaffeced by your horrific past. monica you have your fathers size and are in no way unpleasant to look at. but carry a heavy burden. best wishes to both of you

My keyboard went nuts. Ms. Jonas is a bully to poor Monika who is clearly suffering for events over which she had no control. Monkias suffering is every bit as real as Helena. Like she chose her parents.

We are spiritual beings; not bodies. We have a body but we are a spirit. And us as spirits are in different mental conditions; the worst ones suppress others and will do what almost nobody else would do in a situation where he seems to have power; only it is not true power.

Both women demonstrate great bravery, each in their own way. Certainly it would wrong to punish the child for the sins of the father and it would be equally wrong for anyone to deny, deminish or obfuscate the true horrific nature of that time in history. 'Sounds like this film tells an important and valuable story. Is the film still available to watch somewhere? 'Not sure if we have PBS in the UK.

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Goes without saying how much pain Helen has carried but I do think she could be more benevolent to Monika. Monika is right to say that their meeting is for the lives lost and pain caused; their embrace is representative of a healing process. But Helen is not letting this happen and comes across as almost hostile at times towards Monika. She is not helping her move on and start to heal. I feel for Monika so much, she seems so alone with it all. Sympathy is naturally with Helen. Yet Monika comes across as the stronger of the two in the here and now,

did anyone heard a tone? Me not. It' s more than a pitty. It' s more than this. Don' t have a soundmaster?

the demon man has been dead for years but he was so spooky he haunts his daughter & Helene

This is really trying to heal.

it's very good that Monika never met her father or she would be killed by him

Monica’s daughter wrote a nook as well…my grandfather would have shot me

I think the survivor is very brave

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Monika was born after ww2 so she dont have any idea wat was goin on she just siscovered bit by bit his family hx i think so hard for her

It's too bad that the man in the middle was the center of the story. The video should have had the questions of all of the audience.

It's very interesting how Schindler's list movie came about.thomas Keneally was approached by a jew who had emigrated to Australia and asked Thomas to read his story thus he wrote Schindler's ark this Spielberg made his movie based on that novel

Helen did not even look at Monika for most of the interview

Sorry, Monika didnt really have a chance to say much she was hunched in her chair at times, i feel for Helena as well and the millions of people murdered by the germans, it was not just the jews who were slaughtered......but here in this video i see 2 victims not one.......just my opinion......

Did Monika ever say why she gave up her daughter Jennifer Teege?

Monica looks very heavy laden. Another sad victim of WWII

Have lessons been learnt?...look around you, do we not live in a far more fragile and by far a more dangerous world, as we breath power has been amassed to destroy not only humanity but change the planet never to be recognised as it is ever again...now ask yourselves what lesson has been learnt?

James, you did not speak to Monika as much. As you and Helen talked it looked like Monika was shrinking in her chair. Why do you want to keep putting her through this in public. I have always sympathized with the Jewish people, but I feel like Monika was just as much a victim. I sympathize with Helen for what she went through during the war and with Monika for what she is going through now. Like Monika said, she is not her father.

What Monica iconfronting is her destiny only. Ancestral sins is matters also.

His talking Moore than them

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Monika never knew her father and he never knew her. She was born in 1945 and he was killed in 1946. God knows how many girls Amon impregnated who will never know who their father was. Better for them. He was probably the worst Nazi of them all because he did his own killing. Innocent men, women and children. Hundreds maybe thousands by his own hands. Even Hitler didn't kill with his own hands. And GÖTH loved it. He told them "I am your God!". Meaning he has the power of life and death. What a monster. His last words before he was hung was "Heil Hitler". A Nazi to the end. No remorse. He was hung and his body cremated. He got off easy. He should have been handed over to the survivors and suffered a very slow painful death. Maybe they all could have thrown darts at him. 😮

Not to take away from Monika’s history, but she never met her father. He never laid eyes on her and she did not live in the villa on the grounds of the camp. My guess is that her horror actually lies mostly with her mother for loving and being so devoted to a sadistic madman and turning a blind eye to the atrocities he and his staff perpetrated right under her nose. Perhaps he was such a tyrant that he wouldn’t let her mother, his mistress, be in charge of the villa, where she could’ve made the two Jewish girls who worked there lives better. Maybe he was abusive to her and that’s why she constantly made facial mask recipes and lay in bed with them on her face. Cold cucumbers over the eyes can help reduce swelling from being struck.

The sins of the father are visited upon the children

You deed great work next time whenever you go to the concentration camp take some flowers keep their & pray for peace both soul i. E. Victims & Nazi

I just wonder why she chose to give Jennifer up for adoption instead of letting her Nigerian Father take her to his Mother so that his Mother could care for her. Why? This is what Jennifer shared in her book titled: My Grandfather would have shot me.

He Jewish woman is kind bully. Like Monika hadroover evet she child

wow. u just dont get it......so i wont waste my time arguing with a child

You know I just watched a documentary about the rise of Hitler, and it seems it was arms dealers that were behind Hitler, his bosses in fact, stockpiling tonnes of arms and telling Hitler to say " if the Jews finance one more war they'll be trouble.." and the british and the French did a big song and dance about pretending to be upset about Czech and Poland.. but the second they declared war on germany, all.shaking hands with their own dealers and being all.jubilant...that changed for the french when they got occupied, ie, "lost" and then claimed to be victims..seems all.sour grapes to me...when is the real stories about these arms dealers pulling the strings going to be told? .

I feel so sorry for monika carrying the burden of her monster nazi father and her mother who turned a blind eye to the killings but when her and hellen went back to the house were her father shot the jewish people going to work in the camps i think helen didnt have to be so graffic shouting everything to monika like when monika says but my mother told me she didnt know anything then helen would shout at her saying your father shot people from the window and your mother was right there watching and did nothing and your mother would lay on the bed with a face mask on while your father did terrible things to the jews and your mother had everything she wanted and your father pushed me down the stairs your standing on, its is not monikas fault and it was very shocking for monika and you could see she was truely upset and hurting but helen shouldnt of kept pointing all these things out as monika is his daughter and wasnt even born and she didnt know any of these things till she herself was older and her father never brought her up only her mother as she says she would always ask her mother why dont i have a father like other children and her mother told her he died in the war fighting for his country, so hellen i think was wrong in the documentry and yes she obviously has every right to be upset and disturbed by what amon did to her and she should of said it all to the camera man but instead she was quite agressive in the way she would shout things to monika when monika is clearly disturbed herself and i read she suffered depession and was an alchoholic because of her parents, so sad that monika offered a friendship to helen as she just wanted to help helen but understood that in return helen didnt want anything to do with her and helen couldnt see the suffering in the child monika, instead helen rudely says infront of monika i dont want to see her face as a reminder of amon, a very sad story for both women and they both suffered in different ways from children by this nazi monster. But helen was definately wrong in persecuting monika when she has done nothing wrong to helen except offer kindness.

Monika looks like a dude. I am on Helenas side. I would hate Monika too and not want to keep intouch with her either.