Helena Bonham Carter's Emotional Discovery of Her Grandfathers Past | My Grandparents' War

nearly 80 years ago the streets of bordeaux were gripped with panic thousands of jewish refugees were desperate to leave before the COS topo arrived and the roundups began their main escape route was to cross neutral Spain to Portugal but to do this they needed Spanish transit visas in the Spanish government that told the representatives aboard therefore including my father that they couldn't give any visas without sending the passport to Madrid what days yes yeah so it was undoable so he decided that morally right thing to do was to disobey his government and began issuing these visas right and left to everybody coming in there my grandfather Eduardo defying orders opened the consulate doors and for a whole week day and night incessantly signed visas a few steps away from here your grandfather signed the passports permitting four members of my family to cross into Spain and through to Portugal and get about to the United States in June 1942 of these passports survived all right and so I have brought my father's who sadly left us a few months ago I'm hearing here is a little boy what was his name mission we share valence key we should balance key there he must be something like three three years old and here you can read the signature of your grandfather that's amazing prepareathon he had incredibly neat handwriting I loved it the fact he made it all one yes but I guess if you're signing many many many you'll make it all one way then here's a my homie ran mother's that's your granny mother that's my grandmother okay Zoey yeah there we have a resemblance they were all Polish Jewish yes yep they went to France and they were there in spring of 1940 and then they escaped at the last minute basically because not only was my great-grandfather Jewish he was personally blacklisted by the Gestapo because he was prominent anti appeaser I've noticed they already had to get out yes I wonder how many people didn't get out I got the Portugal that's the way it looked out they got on a boat and there he is my father in New York City with his grandfather during the war amazing he founded UNICEF after really how extraordinary yes and my grandmother and your grounding the war yes goddess fantastic I wonder how many of our jewelers thank God so I've never you're the first person I met who had direct yeah who's directly who heard this basically had alive because of my grandfather one of the things that I've lost and thought about when thinking about Holocaust is how much was destroyed but then the tiny consolation prizes and you made one life that was saved and that was a great family to have saved because he goes the grandfather then goes and invents UNICEF and she now works good mid-surface on France yeah so there's it's almost like one humanitarian act then breeds a whole the whole genealogy or whole a whole tree of other humanitarian acts which is great you

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Length: 4min 16sec (256 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 05 2019