TV funnyman Matt Lucas has expressed the shock he felt after finding out a relative of his had a link to Anne Frank - and even gets a mention in her world famous diary. Matt, a former University of Bristol student, made the discovery during an appearance on BBC One's popular Who Do You Think You Are? show.
During the programme, Matt travelled to Amsterdam - where Anne's family and some of their friends famously tried to hide during the Second World War from Jew-persecuting Nazis - to find out about his German-born Jewish grandmother Margot's aunts and cousins during the Holocaust. It was during this trip that Matt found out one his ancestors is actually mentioned in Anne's diary.
It was revealed that Werner Goldschmidt, Matt's grandmother's cousin, lodged with the Frank family, the Mirror reports. He also namechecked in the book, which was published posthumously in 1947 after Anne died from typhus fever at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp two years earlier, aged 15.
