Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson could not hold back tears when on the air of the program "Finding Your Roots" found out that her relative died in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

As reported by The Daily Mail, the release of the program was devoted to the history of the actress's family, where the creators of the program tried to create a family tree of a celebrity. At the same time, writers try to make the show in such a way that the invited guest of the studio learns something new about his family history, which will become unexpected for him.

So, when the author and presenter of the program, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., told the actress that her great-uncle died in the Warsaw ghetto, she cried.

"It's so sad, I promised myself that I will not cry, but it's difficult," the star reacted by reading one of the archival documents.

Scarlett noted how oddly the fate of the two brothers, one of whom died with his family in the ghetto, and the other in those years worked as a grocer in New York.

Recall, the father of Scarlett Johansson - Karsten Johansson - was a native of Denmark, the son of the screenwriter and director Einer Johannson. And her mother, Melanie Sloan, comes from a family of American Jews from Poland. It is known that Scarlett celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.