This Morning star breaks down in tears as she discovers long-lost granddad's Auschwitz ordeal

star Eva Speakman broke down in tears on the show today while visiting Auschwitz, where her grandfather George was imprisoned during . He was one of the few to leave the concentration camp and to learn about his experience, Eva visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Archive to learn about his horrific time there.

In one scene, Eva broke down as she saw all of the possessions that were confiscated by prisoners as they entered the camp - including a display of shoes. "I think to see that there was a foot on a person in every single pair of shoes in this place," she said, becoming emotional. "Oh my God. All these shoes you can see are just from little ones who were probably just learning to walk and then they got that taken away from them."

Speaking about the visit, Eva said in the film: "The horror of the atrocities committed here, the gratitude that my grandad survived and lived a fulfilled life and my appreciation to everyone who works so hard to preserve this camp as a reminder because this can never happen again."

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The 56-year-old then spoke to hosts Emma Willis and Rylan Clark about her emotional trip and explained that she didn't meet her grandad George until later in life.

"It really was [difficult] because I did visit once when I was a child, I was only nine years of age, and I guess at that time, I was going as a tourist. I had no clue about my grandad or his story. We hadn't found him at that point," she said.

"So to go back then having heard my grandad's story from his own lips...to go back again, it just made it so personal. It was like a part of us, my family had been there and been there for such a long time."

She added that her family only learnt the identity of her grandad when her grandmother told Eva's mum who he was with her "dying breath". She said: "Mum went on this mission to find him, she couldn't find him through the Red Cross because he'd changed his name.

"After the war, because he'd been in there for nearly three years, he was so determine that he wanted justice - for the loss of his family, for the loss of his mum. He witnessed not just his family executed and tortured in barbaric ways, but also that of thousands of people.

"After the war, he was one of the key witnesses who stood at the Nuremberg trials to identify those key SS officers, those Nazis who were instrumental in the genocide and the murders that took place there." Eva's mum finally tracked down George with the help of a private detective.

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