narrator: emmy award-winning actress lisa kudrow first shot to fame in 1994, playing the eccentric phoebe buffayn the hit sitcom friends. she lives in los angeles with her husband, michel, and son, julian. - family is the most important thing to me. my parents, brother, sister, and i are very close, and still live within a few miles of each other. my father, lee, grew up in brooklyn, new york, in very poor conditions. the world i grew up in is a completely different world from the world he grew up in, completely different. i grew up, you know, in a nice suburb of los angeles. you know, and he grew up in poverty. but he just worked so hard, and he finally became a doctor, and he is the one who pulled the family out of hard times. - hi, babe. hi. how are you? - hi, dad. hi, mom. - hi, sweetheart. hi, sweet. - my dad's parents were both eastern european jews. most american jews from eastern europe, you know, they have a holocaust story. there were relatives that were left behind. i want to find out my family's story. i feel like i want some details. to know what they went through, not just for myse