Stephen wants to know more about Martin's life before his move to East Anglia. So, he's off to Surany, cruising down the Danube, where he visits the now closed and desolate sugar factory where Stephen worked.
In a 1926 picture, Stephen's delighted to see that Martin looks a little like a young Einstein. Less happy is the town's Jewish cemetery, now locked and surrounded by a concrete wall to prevent desecration and robbery. It's here that Stephen's great-grandfather, Leopold Neumann, is buried.
Stephen Fry seems as English as tweed, silver toast racks and the London black cab he can be seen driving around the streets of the capital. However, Stephens ancestry is in fact of Jewish European descent.
The story that pricked Stephen's interest the most when researching his family was that of his beloved maternal grandfather, Martin Newman. Martin's actual name was Neumann. By the time of his death, when Stephen was just eleven years old, his flamboyance had made an indelible mark on his grandson.
Stephen hopes to discover more about Martin's life and what happened to the other branches of the Neumann family?
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