'They survived for me to be here': Dustin Hoffman breaks down in tears as he talks about 'hero' great-gran who escaped from Soviet concentration camp to America
As a Hollywood legend he is fortunate enough to live a life filled with comfort and adulation .
But Dustin Hoffman broke down in tears after learning about his 'hero' great-grandmother Libba, who survived life in a Soviet concentration camp before escaping to start a new life in America.
The Marathon Man legend was rocked after discovering how his ancestor was taken from her home in Ukraine to a Russian gulag when Bolsheviks targetted Jews following the outbreak of civil war in 1917.