Survivor Camera - A woman in Boynton Beach, Florida, has an antique camera she inherited from her uncle, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust. Adolf Fingrut stayed behind when his family members left Poland in the 1920s. His niece wants to know which of two conflicting family stories is true: did Uncle Adolf survive the Holocaust by going into hiding with the help of his gentile girlfriend or did he take photographs for the Nazis with this camera? During World War II, some Jewish photographers faced the horrific dilemma of working with the Nazis in documenting their atrocities or going to the death camps. HISTORY DETECTIVES goes to New York to find out how Adolf Fingrut kept one step ahead of death and to shed light on the existential nightmare of survival during wartime.

Alcoholics Anonymous Letter - A man from Laurel, Maryland, owns a mysterious letter that was written in 1942. It's a tribute addressed to his grandmother on the occasion of his grandfather Herbert Wallace's death, acknowledging Mr. Wallace's support for the Alcoholics Anonymous. "We of the A.A. Group have never had a better friend, nor a stauncher one, than Herb when the going was hard," the note states. The contributor believes that his grandfather was not an alcoholic, and is curious to learn how the supposedly sober, well-heeled customs attorney was involved in the early days of one of the most miraculous social movements of the modern era. HISTORY DETECTIVES searches New York's Westchester County, Brooklyn and Manhattan for insight into a movement that has changed the lives of millions worldwide and helped shape society's attitudes about alcoholism.

Tallahassee Mystery Cross - About 15 years ago, archeologists at the Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, Florida, made an astonishing discovery. In the process of excavating several hundred bodies at the site of this 17th-century Spanish mission, they unearthed a beautiful and undamaged glass-like cross. The current chief of the Apalachee Tribe says his ancestors once lived near the mission, but fled when British forces raided in the early 1700s. He wants to confirm whether the cross was made centuries ago by his own ancestors. HISTORY DETECTIVES journeys to Florida to examine the Spanish efforts to proselytize among native tribes, and explore the fusing of native and Christian ideologies and symbols into a unique version of New World Catholicism.