The Incredible Story of Scarlett Johansson's Great-Grandfather | PBS' Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®


On this episode of Finding Your Roots Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Scarlett Johansson (Jurassic World: Rebirth, Black Widow, The Avengers) learn about her maternal family's history, including their Jewish roots in Eastern Europe. Here she discovers that her great-grandfather, Saul Schlamberg (or Schlamberg), immigrated to the US in 1910, while his brother and family perished in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.

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