You can be forgiven for not knowing that the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? is up and running - I didn't, and ended up watching Andrew Garfield's episode on iPlayer when I realised I'd missed it.
I'm glad I was able to catch-up because this was a solid episode to open the series.
Actor Andrew Garfield followed his father's family on both sides of the Atlantic, with a search that encompassed Poland, Britain, and the US.
The episode highlighted some of the more tragic aspects of researching Jewish family history - the Holocaust, the ghettoes, and pogroms - as well as featuring some of the glamour of old Hollywood.
The mix between the glamour and the tragedy clashed a little - but I think in less skilled presenting hands, it would have been more jarring.
Andrew Garfield did a lot of the work to bridge the tonal gaps and connect the family's story, bringing perspective to the family's lives in America, and the poetic justice of a cousin who worked with the famous Monuments Men in World War Two to reclaim art stolen by the Nazis.
The beating heart of this episode was undoubtedly Garfield's trip to Treblinka, where masses of memorial stones represented ghettoes - each standing in for thousands of people murdered at the camp.
Family stories such as this provide some small piece of justice to the Holocaust's victims, by preserving the names and stories of those who were murdered senselessly by the Nazi regime.
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