Matt Damon, George Clooney, Elle MacPherson, Thandie Newton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Tim Burton leaving the Harpers Bazaar dinner at L’Atelier in London, England, last night.

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Israel’s Holocaust memorial on Wednesday posthumously recognized a prominent Spanish diplomat, who was actress Helena Bonham Carter’s grandfather, for his role in saving hundreds of Jews during World War II.

Yad Vashem named Eduardo Propper de Callejon a ”Righteous Among the Nations,” the highest honor granted to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. More than 22,000 have been honored since the designation was originated in 1963, including Oskar Schindler, whose efforts to save more than 1,000 Jews was documented in the Oscar-winning film ”Schindler’s List,” and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who is credited for having saved at least 20,000. Only four Spaniards have been granted the award.

About 6 million European Jews were killed by German Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. As German troops marched into France in the summer of 1940, Propper de Callejon, then first secretary in the Spanish Embassy in Paris, stamped and signed passports for four days nearly nonstop to allow refugees to escape to Spain, and from there to the relative safety of Portugal.

Propper de Callejon, a Franco loyalist, defied Spanish Foreign Ministry instructions not to issue such visas. In 1941, he was demoted, and never promoted to be an ambassador. He retired in 1965 and died in 1972. The exact number of visas Propper de Callejon issued remains unknown, but Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev said it was believed to be at least 1,500, both Jewish and non-Jewish. ”He was signing papers with both his hands. He signed so many that his hands hurt so much, my mother had to bandage them at the end of the day,” said Elena Bonham Carter, his daughter. ”It was extraordinary. He said those were the most important days of his life.”

Bonham Carter attended Wednesday’s ceremony at the memorial’s Garden of the Righteous along with her brother, Felipe Propper de Callejon. ”Today, justice has been done to my father,” he said. Helena Bonham Carter is currently on location for the latest film in the Harry Potter series, ”Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” ”She would have loved to be here today,” Bonham Carter said of her famous daughter. ”She is so proud of him.”

Helena Bonham Carter, 41, was nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in the 1997 film, ”The Wings of the Dove.” She is also well known for her starring roles in movies including ”Fight Club,” ”Howard’s End,” ”Frankenstein” and several films directed by her longtime partner, Tim Burton.

Helena Bonham Carter and her partner, Tim Burton have finally chosen a name for their daughter: Indiana Rose.

Helena gave birth to their baby on December 15th, but have just recently decided on the name.

Sources say that they decided on the name just days ago. The reason for the wait? They originally thought they were going to have another boy.

It’s about time!!

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Johnny Depp was surprised when he was asked to be godfather to director pal Tim Burton’s son - because the quirky moviemaker couldn’t bring himself to do it himself.

Instead, Burton asked his wife Helena Bonham Carter to put the idea to the actor.

Depp was working alongside Burton on the set of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory when he received a message to call Bonham Carter urgently.

And the actor, who quickly agreed to be four-year-old Billy’s godfather, was puzzled that Burton hadn’t asked him personally.

He explains, “This is Tim Burton in a nutshell - we were doing Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and I was on the set… One of my pals comes up and says, ‘Helena just called. When you get a moment, she’d like you to give her a call back.’ So I go back to the trailer, call Helena, and say, ‘Hey, what’s going on?… Is everything all right?’ And she says, ‘Everything’s fine. But, well, you know how Tim is. He wants to know if you’d be… he’d like for you to be Billy’s godfather.’

“I say, ‘But I was just with Tim. I was with him three minutes ago. I had to leave him to walk back to the trailer to call you.’ So she called me to ask because Tim just couldn’t. That was his way of asking. I went back to the set and said, `Thank you.’ I told him that I was honored. It doesn’t get heavier than saying, `I’d like you to be the godfather of my son.’ But he’s not ever going to put himself into a corny kind of situation with a pal. He’s like, `Good, yeah, yeah.’ Boom. `Let’s get back into the work.’”

Bonham Carter gave birth to her second child with Burton on Saturday, a girl whose name is currently unknown.

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Helena Bonham Carter and her director beau Tim Burton have welcomed their second child, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The infant, born in London late Saturday, joins big brother Billy, who is 4.

“They are absolutely delighted they have a daughter,” the actress’s rep, Karon Maskill, tells PEOPLE. “It’s a lovely Christmas present for the family.”

Bonham Carter, 41, and Burton, 49, have had a busy time of late. Both were nominated for Golden Globe awards for Sweeney Todd – she for best actress, he for best director. In fact, they got that news while at the doctor’s office.

“We were talking about inducing, and Tim got a call from his assistant,” Bonham Carter told PEOPLE before the birth. “I do look like a globe, so it’s kind of funny. I am very round.”

She also joked that it was probably hard on the baby while in utero to listen to Mom learning how to sing for her role in the musical. “Maybe the baby’s going to come out with his hands on his ears. ‘Shut up!’ ” she laughed.

She added that the anticipation of meeting the new baby was intense. “I just can’t wait,” she said. “It’s hard to imagine we can make anything other than Billy.”

The couple revealed the pregnancy exclusively to PEOPLE in August.

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DON’T tell Helena Bonham Carter what to do with her pregnancy. Carter, who’s eight months expecting with Tim Burton’s baby, told blackbookmag.com, “People - particularly men - saying with surprise, ‘You’re still drinking caffeine?’ as if I’m performing a criminal act on my unborn as I tuck into my treasured one-a-day cup of tea/coffee. Yeah. You try nine months of gestation and self-abnegation before you start censoring my diet. Your mother was probably on vodka, and do you have three heads?”