Blast From My Past

When these hi-tech employees were hired by MyHeritage, canoeing down a river full of crocodiles in the heart of the Amazon jungle was not in the job description. Follow their adventures and misadventures as they embarked on a highly unusual pro bono mission to document the family histories of remote indigenous tribes.

So many priceless photos, letters, and other personal items languish forgotten in attics, flea markets, or antique shops — but heirloom hunters Chelsey Brown and Kate Kelley make it their life's mission to find them, uncover their stories, and reunite them with the descendants of those who left them behind.

He wants YOU to join the U.S. Army. But who is this Uncle Sam in that iconic recruitment poster? It turns out that he was based on a real person — and this is his fascinating story.

In a 1933 photo, a Jewish shopkeeper, decorated with a German military medal from WWI, smiles wryly right next to a Nazi guard outside his shop. Who was this man, and what happened to him in the dark years that followed? The answer tells an astonishing story of courage.

Abandoned at the same train station in Daegu, South Korea just weeks apart, Kim and Christine were placed for adoption on opposite sides of the globe and grew up unaware of each other's existence. Then came the DNA test results that changed everything.

Yvette Corporan had to know: did the entire Greek island community where her grandmother grew up really conspire to hide a Jewish family, right under the noses of their Nazi occupiers? Follow her quest to confirm this extraordinary story... and find out what happened to the family her grandmother helped to rescue.

Blast From My Past is a brand-new podcast sharing incredible true stories about family discoveries, presented by MyHeritage. Launches March 1.