A map and a mission: On the trail of my family's buried silver
A hand-drawn treasure map took Jan Glazewski from South Africa to a forest in Ukraine. But could he locate the exact spot his family heirlooms had been buried 80 years earlier?
Jan Glazewski's dad handed him a sketchy map and a mission to find the family silver, buried in haste as they fled war in eastern Europe decades earlier. But Jan lives in South Africa, the other side of the world to where the treasure was buried and many of the markers on the map had been destroyed, or become unrecognisable in the intervening years. And he was battling his own health issues. Could he possibly find the hidden heirlooms? Jan has written about his search in his book Blood and Silver: A true story of survival and a son's search for his family treasure.
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Presenter: Andrea Kennedy
Producer: Deiniol Buxton
(Photo: Jan Glazewski and his father's hand-drawn map. Credit: Louise van Riet and Jan Glazewski)
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