Actor Dustin Hoffman was overwhelmed with emotion after learning about the heroic actions and suffering of his great-grandparents in Soviet Russia, about whom he apparently knew nothing until he heard their story during an interview with PBS’s “Finding Your Roots.”
Researchers with the genealogy show hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. discovered the heroic actions and painful history of the Oscar-winning actor’s grandparents and great-grandparents that his father never told him.
Dustin Hoffman (Image source: YouTube/PBS)
Dustin Hoffman never knew his paternal grandparents, Frank and Esther Hoffman, or his great-grandparents, Sam and Libba Hoffman, who came from Belaya Tserkov, once part of the …read more
Source: The Blaze
