Jane Seymour was in agony after discovering some of her relatives endured unfathomable trauma. While appearing on BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" Seymour, whose real last name is Frankenberg, learned she had two great-aunts, Jadwiga and Micaela, who survived the Holocaust. Yet when Jadwiga learned her husband and children had not, she killed herself. Seymour took that hard, with a source from the show telling The Mirror, "She is devastated to discover her great aunt survived a concentration camp only to commit suicide."
For Seymour, family is the most important thing, which is why it's no surprise that what happened to hers during World War II had a profound impact on her. "Emotionally, it was a roller coaster. I felt like I'd been through hell," she said, according to Irish Mirror.
Seymour's own mother had also survived three and a half years as a prisoner war in a Japanese internment camp. Seymour saw firsthand how that had a lasting affect on her, and how some of her mother's friends who also survived later suffered from survivor's guilt or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It appears though that Seymour found strength in knowing what the women in her family have overcome. As she told Saga Exceptional, "My mother was a complete inspiration. She'd been through some horrendous times."
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