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Michael Havis & Joe Smith

Treasure hunter uses map left by his father to find buried family silver after 80 years

A stash of priceless treasure buried by a fleeing family during the Second World War has been unearthed almost 80 years later by the new generation.

The Glazewski family buried their silver and fled their estate in eastern Poland in September 1939 ahead of the advancing Soviet army, as their country was carved up between the Nazis and Stalin's regime.

The family scattered, with the four sons starting lives in different corners of the world - but the legend of the family treasure was never forgotten by the Glazewski family.

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