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===Maternal=== {{see also|Fould family}} Her maternal grandfather, Spanish diplomat [[Eduardo Propper de Callejón]], saved thousands of Jews from the [[Holocaust]] during the [[Second World War]], for which he was recognised as [[Righteous Among the Nations]],<ref name=YadVashem>{{cite web|title=Yad Vashem awards the title of Righteous Among the Nations to the late Eduardo Propper de Callejon of Spain|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/events/12-march-2008.html|publisher=[[International Institute for Holocaust Research]]|access-date=4 January 2013|archive-date=29 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929152724/https://www.yadvashem.org/events/12-march-2008.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and posthumously received the [[Courage to Care Award]] from the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5268_52.htm |title=ADL Honors Spanish Diplomat Who Saved Jews & Others During Holocaust |publisher=Adl.org |access-date=20 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117021008/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5268_52.htm |archive-date=17 January 2013}}</ref> His own father was a [[Bohemian Jew]], and his wife, Helena's grandmother, was a [[Jewish]] [[Conversion to Catholicism|convert to Catholicism]].<ref name="Pfefferman">{{cite web |last=Pfefferman |first=Naomi |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood_jew/article/helena_bonham_carter_jewish_mother_20080730/ |title=Helena Bonham Carter—Jewish mother? |publisher=Jewish Journal |date=30 July 2008 |access-date=20 December 2012 |archive-date=2 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902213608/http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood_jew/article/helena_bonham_carter_jewish_mother_20080730 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=YadVashem /> He later served as Minister-Counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/07/classified/paid-notice-deaths-propper-de-callejon-helene.html | work=New York Times | title=Paid Notice: Deaths PROPPER DE CALLEJON, HELENE | date=7 July 1997 | access-date=16 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229035911/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/07/classified/paid-notice-deaths-propper-de-callejon-helene.html | archive-date=29 December 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Her maternal grandmother, [[Fould family|Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer]], was from an upper-class [[Jews|Jewish]] family; she was the daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (a French banker descended from the [[Ephrussi family]] and the [[Fould family|Fould dynasty]]) and Marie-Cécile von Springer (whose father was Austrian-born industrialist Baron Gustav von Springer, and whose mother was from the de [[Koenigswarter]] family).<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref name="08ref1">{{cite news|last=Frazer |first=Jenni |title=How Helena's grandfather was finally recognised as a true hero |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |date=8 February 2008 |url=http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=57933&ATypeId=1 |access-date=8 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210025449/http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=57933&ATypeId=1 |archive-date=10 February 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Barber|first=Lynn|title=Helena Bonham Carter: Couldn't she just wear a babygro?|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=20 April 1997|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/Observer/0,,44062,00.html|access-date=13 July 2007|archive-date=4 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704104829/http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/Observer/0,,44062,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hélène Fould-Springer [[Catholicisation|converted to Catholicism]] after the Second World War.<ref name="Pfefferman"/><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/08/helena_bonham_c.html | work=The Boston Globe | first=Michael | last=Paulson | title=Helena Bonham Carter as a Jewish mum | date=18 August 2008 | access-date=20 February 2020 | archive-date=23 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223090652/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/08/helena_bonham_c.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Hélène's sister was the French philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003), the wife of Baron [[Élie de Rothschild]], of the prominent [[Rothschild family]] (who had also married within the von Springer family in the 19th century);<ref>Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3415. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.</ref> Liliane's other sister, Therese Fould-Springer, was the mother of British writer [[David Pryce-Jones]].<ref name="08ref1" />
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