Name: Who Do You Think You Are?
Genre: Reality

Who Do You Think You Are? Episode 14.10 Ruby Wax

Who Do You Think You Are? Episode 14.10 Ruby Wax

Episode Premiere

October 4, 2017

Genre

Reality

Production Company

Is or Isn't Entertainment, Wall to Wall Production

Official Site

http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/who-do-you-think-you-are

Information

Episode Premiere

October 4, 2017

Genre

Reality

Period

2010 - Now

Production Co

Is or Isn't Entertainment, Wall to Wall Production

Distributor

TLC, NBC

Official Site

http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/who-do-you-think-you-are

Cast and Crew

Additional Cast

Ruby Wax

Synopsis

Ruby Wax's Jewish parents fled Vienna and the Nazis for America in 1938. 'They took the war with them and brought it to our kitchen,' says the comedian and mental-health campaigner at the start of this remarkable episode.

They raised their only daughter in a dramatically dysfunctional household - Ruby's father was volatile and her mother 'hysterical... screaming in the street.' Ruby wonders if her own mental illness had its origins in her upbringing and the trauma her parents went through, or whether it is in her family's genes.

Ruby journeys to central Europe, where she learns about her parents' flight and the distressing fate of family who remained in Vienna during the war, and she makes a startling discovery about her great-aunt and great-grandmother, which is both harrowing and surprisingly affirming.