Scarlett Johansson

And she was so bummed.

You can hear the bitterness in her voice.

You can.

You've got to find a way to have that out there as an extra.

It's going to be on the B-sides.

I did, actually.

I was on the Henry Louis Gates show, Finding Your Roots, and I knew that I had lost relatives in the Warsaw ghetto, but I certainly didn't know how many, several relatives.

members of my family, a whole family of people and young children.

And looking at the register, one of the members who had escaped went back, you know, after the war and after the ghetto had been destroyed, really.

Yeah.

And, you know, had to go back and to kind of take a

Notice of, you know, this is what they died from.

This is how old they were, you know, almost like a diary of that.

And so to see the handwritten names, ages, I know children, you know, that they were dying of cancer.

You know, whether it was listed either starvation or, you know, diarrhea or it's so profound and moving and horrifying just to hold that document.

Yeah.

And, you know, I've spoken to friends of mine, too, actually, who have very similar stories of members of their family that they lost in the Holocaust, meaning similar in the sense that the details were kind of lost for decades.

And that actually that my, you know, friends of mine that are the same generation as myself lost.

were uncovering the secrets of the past.

I think because there's so, you know, one of the interesting things I think about Bessie's story is that she says, you know, I've not told anyone, not even my own children.