I highly recommend Ancestral Footsteps for your personal journey... and what a wonderful experience and video to pass on to your children.
For the BBC, Sue Hills (founder of Ancestral Footsteps) and her team took my sister and I on a journey of a lifetime discovering people and circumstances of our past unknown and therefore unappreciated. Two and a half centuries back... but how close we came to not being. The Holocaust destroyed most of my family…my parents escaping to England literally days before the gates shut with Hitler's invasion of Poland. The details, the records they found of both my grandmothers, of their last days, of my uncles and aunts and cousins, their deportation orders, the trains they were on, their final destination and extermination…it was all there and presented by Sue and her team with utmost sensitivity. To be there in person, for all its intensity, was indeed a journey of a lifetime - capped off by meeting a cousin - also a child of survivors, that I never knew I had... well, what a gift.
JERRY SPRINGER, American Talk Show Host
