A BBC film about a Holocaust survivor taking his teenage granddaughter to Europe to learn about his past has won an International Emmy Kids Award.
Finding My Family: Holocaust, which featured Steven Frank and Maggie Fleet, was shown on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2019 by CBBC Newsround.
Its Emmy in the factual and entertainment section follows the children’s Bafta it picked up last year.
Maggie’s mother Jo Fleet, an assistant headteacher at Immanuel College, Bushey, said, “ I am obviously delighted for the family but am absolutely thrilled that the Holocaust education from this film is attracting the global eye and clearly is of meaning and importance to those who judge.”
Mr Frank, who was 83, when the film was shot, took Maggie, then 14, to Amsterdam, where he went to school, Theresienstadt, which he survived with his mother and two brothers, and Auschwitz, where his father was murdered.
An animated version of Judith Kerr’s classic The Tiger Who Came to Tea, made by Channel 4, Lupus Films and HarperCollins, won the international childen’s Emmy for animation.
