Specialists in all forms of asset reunification, Heirtrace invite you to view two television programmes in the Heir Hunters series showing one specialised area of our work.

BBC1 9.15am Tuesday, 30th June, 2009. Heir Hunters: The Vera Gissing Story.

Gustav Kestner was a prominent lawyer in Prague before the war and perished in the Holocaust, The film tells how Heirtrace Research Director, Derek Rodbard, acting on instructions from lawyers in Tel Aviv, traced his two nieces Vera and Eva, who arrived at Liverpool Street station in 1939 on the children’s transports. Heirtrace and the lawyers work together to reunite the two sisters with £23,000 each, from an insurance policy in their Uncle Gustav’s name.

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BBC1 9.15am Tuesday, 21st July, 2009. Heir Hunters: The Otto Hornung Story.

Otto Hornung is a great character with an incredible story to tell. His father, also a lawyer, and the family lived in Ostrava in Czechoslovakia in 1939. This area was annexed before the war started and his father escaped to Poland, but was later caught by the Germans and shot. Heirtrace found Otto in Wembley, and is currently arranging for the return of his father’s assets.

These films, although set in the most terrible times of the 20th Century, bring the human side of these events into focus, and we hope that you enjoy them.