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

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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[@thatchoirgirl94]

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

[@crossemily]

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

[@o2xb]

oh you sound awfully common!

[@lizlee6290]

@@o2xb Huh?

[@jenniferwittridge4163]

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.

[@gibbytheidiot8696]

I could listen to Steven fry talk all day

[@Xrisus94]

Do you like Harry Potter?

[@normadesmond6017]

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]

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

[@leokorn1629]

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

[@magnetsoldiercephas331]

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

[@9wowable]

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]

László it’s awful isn’t it! 😱😱😱

[@ciaragildea998]

Just the dramatic change in his voice breaks my heart

[@norahdenovan8658]

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

[@barbaraseidel1905]

I love Stephen !He is so charming!

[@skywatcher651]

Stephen Fry has a sweet soul

[@Zebcast]

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

[@jenniferwittridge4163]

Just love this man so educated and an inspiration

[@arsaeterna4285]

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

[@K100-b3e]

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]

Well in UK its best not to approach kids!

[@newsoul1]

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.

[@thesandwich5321]

Did you?

[@twodogzdogue8710]

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]

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]

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.

[@XYZUNKNOWN]

Thanks for uploading all of these videos.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Thank you🙏 Steven Fry I will watch this later.

[@mirianansotegi9590]

Huge hug.

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

Oh, my heart. . .

[@stephenroney2366]

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

[@mowl]

😁

[@Ddireland]

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

[@JulieWallis1963]

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

[@beth12svist]

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]

@@beth12svist Eva Braun * ^^

[@leokorn1629]

a real man of the world

[@DaChaGee]

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

[@barbaraseidel1905]

Servus! It is Great! Many Greetings From Vienna

[@bunnypop6018]

Wow, I didn't know Stephen speaks German

[@chanilastname7217]

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

[@katella]

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

[@DavidJJames]

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

[@katella]

@@DavidJJames 😂 no worries there.

[@DavidJJames]

@@katella Atomkraftsarkasmus nein danke.

[@nirfz]

And because of that ancestors, Stephen is elligable to vote in the austrian parliament election this year. There is a special clause for austrian citizenship that people who's austrian ancestors got deported or killed ect. can apply for austrian citizenship, and don't need to fulfill all the other requirements everyone else has to. As kind of "reparations" for the matter that their ancestors citizenship did not protect them back then. (my interpretation)

[@carmanahhain622]

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

[@miriammehr-ayin3891]

Good

[@Sherirose1]

German is such a nice language.

[@heidinein645]

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

[@jillybe1873]

Lots of Jews are going back to Vienna.

[@lesblack8996]

So?

[@jitaamesuluma9730]

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

[@JulieWallis1963]

Jita'ame suluma ultimately we are _all_ related to each other!

[@edwardgoebbernays6572]

looool

[@edwardgoebbernays6572]

Noam Chomsky he's Jews too.

[@lesblack8996]

eh?

[@jarrodbarkley9061]

In name only. He's a disgrace.

[@lesblack8996]

@@jarrodbarkley9061 what is this nonsense thread?