Helena Bonham Carter’s grandparents—two in France, two in England—weren’t conventional war heroes. They didn’t fight in any battles but did save countless lives. Bonham Carter explores the story of her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejón. A Spanish diplomat, de Callejón defied his government’s orders by issuing visas to help Jewish people escape the Holocaust as the Nazis invaded France. She learns her paternal grandmother, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, took her own stand against anti-Semitism. A mother of four and a liberal politician, Violet was also ahead of her time, volunteering as an air raid warden and campaigning for women’s rights.

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