Synopsis
Stephen Fry traces his grandfather back to Slovakia and learns what happened to relatives who didn't escape the Nazis.
- Programme: Who Do You Think You Are?
- Series: 2
- Episode: 03: Stephen Fry
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2007
- History | Nazi Germany & Holocaust
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