{"id":95739,"date":"2022-05-30T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95739"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:33:27","slug":"09-00-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95739","title":{"rendered":"Actor Liev Schreiber Says Jewish Grandfather\u2019s Roots Inspired His Relief Efforts in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Actor Liev Schreiber Says Jewish Grandfather\u2019s Roots Inspired His Relief Efforts in Ukraine<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Actor Liev Schreiber. Photo: Gage Skidmore\/Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jewish actor and director Liev Schreiber told a radio program that his Jewish maternal grandfather\u2019s ties to Ukraine pushed him to help residents of the country during the ongoing invasion by Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cRay Donovan\u201d star was in Poland\u00a0last month<\/a>\u00a0serving food to Ukrainian refugees for Passover, and in March, he co-founded the\u00a0BlueCheck Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0organization, which identifies, vets and provides financial support to frontline aid groups aiding Ukrainians.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a recent fundraiser for BlueCheck Ukraine in Washington, DC, Schreiber spoke to\u00a0NPR<\/em>\u2018s \u201cAll Things Considered<\/a>\u201d about his grandfather Alex Milgram, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine and Poland who survived the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother and father separated when I was very young. And so in many respects, Alex \u2026 raised me in New York City,\u201d Schreiber explained. \u201cAnd he was a huge influence on me. And he died right after I got out of graduate school. And I had this kind of powerful, emotional feeling about him when he died that I hadn\u2019t bothered to get to know him. And it was something that really motivated and inspired a lot of the work I did from that time forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that when he saw images of the conflict in Ukraine, he connected to the crisis, and compelled to act. \u201cIt made me feel like I was related,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schreiber also shared memories about his grandfather, telling the radio show, \u201che played football, and he was a hockey player. And there were all these things that people said Jews didn\u2019t do that my grandfather did that I loved. He was the kind of guy that would slap me in the back of the head if I didn\u2019t open a door for somebody \u2014 not hard, but hard enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The filmmaker\u2019s grandfather did not speak much about his experience in the Holocaust, Schreiber said. Still, his interest in learning about his grandfather\u2019s past ultimately led him to write a screenplay about a young American who visits Ukraine to explore his heritage \u2014 which he scrapped before ultimately directing the film adaptation of \u201cEverything Is Illuminated,\u201d in 2005. The movie, which was Schreiber\u2019s directorial debut, is about an American Jewish man who travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather\u2019s life during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schreiber additionally praised Ukrainians for being \u201cresilient and courageous\u201d while facing war, and spoke about plans for continued aid efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the thing that\u2019s stuck in my mind right now \u2014 the families, the women carrying, you know, those suitcases behind them and heading for the border with their children while their men go off to the front lines to fight a battle in which they\u2019re hugely outgunned and outnumbered,\u201d he noted. \u201cThat is the big image in my mind and, I think, in everybody else\u2019s. The challenge for me is, like, sustainability, like keeping everyone interested, you know, keeping this in the headlines, keeping people aware of what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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