Stephen Fry Heads To Vienna - Who Do You Think You Are?

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  • Опубликовано: 29 дек 2013
  • Next, Stephen heads for Vienna and military archives held in the city. Here, he discovers more about Martin Neumann's experiences in the First World War. Aged just 18, Martin volunteered the Austro-Hungarian army and won a medal for his service on the Eastern Front in Romania.
    When the conflict ended, Martin visited distant cousins, the Brauns, in Vienna. Martin subsequently married Rosa Braun, Stephen's grandmother. Seeing the apartment block where the Brauns lived, Stephen discovers a plaque that features the names of his great-grandparents, Samuel and Berta. It's a monument to those who lived in the building and were taken to the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Samuel and Berta were among 65,000 Viennese Jews deported to a ghetto in Latvia in 1942.
    Stephen Fry seems as English as tweed, silver toast racks and the London black cab he can be seen driving around the streets of the capital. However, Stephens ancestry is in fact of Jewish European descent.
    The story that pricked Stephen's interest the most when researching his family was that of his beloved maternal grandfather, Martin Newman. Martin's actual name was Neumann. By the time of his death, when Stephen was just eleven years old, his flamboyance had made an indelible mark on his grandson.
    Stephen hopes to discover more about Martin's life and what happened to the other branches of the Neumann family?
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Комментарии • 63

  • @thatchoirgirl94
    @thatchoirgirl94 Год назад +15

    Stephen engaging with those two boys at the beginning is just adorable.
    This man is a gem! A brightly sparkling one.

  • @crossemily
    @crossemily 5 лет назад +205

    How very thoughtful of that lady to remember them through the plaque.

    • @o2xb
      @o2xb 3 года назад +1

      oh you sound awfully common!

    • @lizlee6290
      @lizlee6290 2 года назад +4

      @@o2xb Huh?

    • @jenniferwittridge4163
      @jenniferwittridge4163 2 года назад +6

      Floating man, I try not to be something I'm not, a common woman I may be, but I've never sat on a sofa critisizing the world or people in it, I crave intelligent inspiration. I don't spend my time downing others for gratitude, wish you well.

  • @9wowable
    @9wowable 4 года назад +173

    The horror in his face when he sees the name plaque, sees his Great Grandparents on it, then realised it’s for holocaust victims.

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 4 года назад +7

      László it’s awful isn’t it! 😱😱😱

    • @ciaragildea998
      @ciaragildea998 4 года назад +18

      Just the dramatic change in his voice breaks my heart

  • @skywatcher651
    @skywatcher651 4 года назад +46

    Stephen Fry has a sweet soul

  • @magnetsoldiercephas331
    @magnetsoldiercephas331 Год назад +5

    This man has had a lot of family lost in Holocaust. Heavy and emotional.

  • @gibbytheidiot8696
    @gibbytheidiot8696 4 года назад +118

    I could listen to Steven fry talk all day

    • @Xrisus94
      @Xrisus94 4 года назад +1

      Do you like Harry Potter?

    • @normadesmond6017
      @normadesmond6017 3 года назад +3

      o yes. whenever you feel sad or bored, just go to youtube and listen to Stephen Fry talking about whatever. You'll feel a lot better. Total Fry fan here too!

    • @Mrs.TJTaylor
      @Mrs.TJTaylor 3 года назад +2

      I listen to him talk all night on audiobooks. Best voice actor ever. And a great human being.

  • @leokorn1629
    @leokorn1629 2 года назад +13

    the lady and stephen fry were so touched by this. i think he felt in a way relieved finding that plaque on this house.

  • @norahdenovan8658
    @norahdenovan8658 Год назад +9

    I remember watching this when first shown, amazing , love Stephen fry ❤️

  • @barbaraseidel1905
    @barbaraseidel1905 3 года назад +16

    I love Stephen !He is so charming!

  • @jenniferwittridge4163
    @jenniferwittridge4163 2 года назад +15

    Just love this man so educated and an inspiration

  • @Zebcast
    @Zebcast 4 года назад +25

    Extraordinary. This show is what inspired me to start my own family tree on Ancestry. Now I can't stop checking out the site!

  • @arsaeterna4285
    @arsaeterna4285 4 года назад +38

    1:13
    That's so funny I'm thirty now and I haven't spoken to kid since I was like
    a kid lol, it's been ages since I've felt that nervous but assertive energy

    • @user-jo3go8fe3g
      @user-jo3go8fe3g 2 года назад +2

      I love interacting with kids! They’re the most bringer and thoughtful! It’s a real joy like they say. I have a lot of nieces and nephews I babysit haha. I can’t wait to be a mum.

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 Год назад +1

      Well in UK its best not to approach kids!

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 2 года назад +3

    Thank you🙏 Steven Fry
    I will watch this later.

  • @newsoul1
    @newsoul1 5 лет назад +76

    I did not know Stephen's family lived in Austria. I was planning on going to Vienna tomorrow and you bet i will visit this plague tomorrow and weep.

  • @XYZUNKNOWN
    @XYZUNKNOWN 2 года назад +3

    Thanks for uploading all of these videos.

  • @mirianansotegi9590
    @mirianansotegi9590 4 года назад +16

    Huge hug.

  • @twodogzdogue8710
    @twodogzdogue8710 4 года назад +12

    If it was my great grandparents previous home I would have liked to visit the rooms that my great grandparents lived in before they were taken from. So upsetting the memory of what they endured.
    It is a pity the lady couldn't let Mr Fry see the place his family lived & loved. He surely would love to walk through the home.
    He did not want to ask & it's so much nicer when someone offers!

    • @ej3016
      @ej3016 3 года назад +5

      sounds like she lives in the building not in their former apartment - not for her to continence other tenants to do something they not wanting to do 🤔

    • @mickimicki
      @mickimicki Год назад +2

      It looks as though that building was not the family's original home. According to the document, they had been moved there (probably forcibly), a few years before they were deported to Riga.

  • @DaChaGee
    @DaChaGee 3 года назад +15

    Hearing Stephen Fry say Gruß Gott and Auf wieder schauen ist Just weird!

    • @barbaraseidel1905
      @barbaraseidel1905 3 года назад +2

      Servus!
      It is Great!
      Many Greetings From Vienna

  • @Mrs.TJTaylor
    @Mrs.TJTaylor 3 года назад +4

    Oh, my heart. . .

  • @stephenroney2366
    @stephenroney2366 Год назад +2

    When I was younger, I thought folk said at 1 minute, "Muscletop". Lol.

    • @mowl
      @mowl Год назад +1

      😁

  • @Ddireland
    @Ddireland 4 года назад +18

    My mum Braun from Ireland my dad Khan from Northern Afghanistan :) What does that make me Slavic Aryan ,oh my

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 4 года назад

      DURDANA KHAN I need the story on how _your_ parents met! 😘

    • @beth12svist
      @beth12svist 4 года назад +10

      Braun is a German name, not Slavic, though... although what with Central Europe being the cultural crossroads it often was in history, that side of your family can very well be a whole mixture on its own. :-)

    • @edwardgoebbernays6572
      @edwardgoebbernays6572 4 года назад

      @@beth12svist Eva Braun * ^^

    • @leokorn1629
      @leokorn1629 2 года назад

      a real man of the world

  • @bunnypop6018
    @bunnypop6018 4 года назад +14

    Wow, I didn't know Stephen speaks German

    • @chanilastname7217
      @chanilastname7217 4 года назад +4

      His German is quite adorable being it slightly mispronounced at times.

    • @katella
      @katella Год назад +1

      German is commonly taught in English schools. Don't forget that their royal family comes from Germany.

    • @DavidJJames
      @DavidJJames Год назад +1

      Meist Englischmaenner koennen sprechen Deutsch Aber wir tun nicht so als nicht auszusehen zu schlau.

    • @katella
      @katella Год назад +1

      @@DavidJJames 😂 no worries there.

    • @DavidJJames
      @DavidJJames Год назад

      @@katella Atomkraftsarkasmus nein danke.

  • @miriammehr-ayin3891
    @miriammehr-ayin3891 2 года назад

    Good

  • @carmanahhain622
    @carmanahhain622 8 месяцев назад

    Can anyone translate what the plaque says at 3:57 ?

  • @Sherirose1
    @Sherirose1 Год назад +2

    German is such a nice language.

  • @heidinein645
    @heidinein645 Год назад +2

    The nazis brought the Jews to the east into kzs....

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 Год назад +2

    Lots of Jews are going back to Vienna.

  • @jitaamesuluma9730
    @jitaamesuluma9730 6 лет назад +12

    Omg they are brown, my great great grandmother was a brown , cousin stephen ? .... I have Jewish blood, could be

  • @edwardgoebbernays6572
    @edwardgoebbernays6572 4 года назад +1

    Noam Chomsky he's Jews too.