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- catalog abstract "They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps ... and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest ... and of his unbelievable success.".
- catalog contributor b12844538.
- catalog contributor b12844539.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "The Journey of the Diamonds -- First Words -- Origins -- Moving West -- Diamonds and Jews -- A New Discovery -- The Greatest Discovery -- The Camps -- KZ Majdanek -- KZ Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- KZ Vught -- Sam Nyer's Journey -- A World at War -- Out of the Mountains -- Plunder -- Killing Fields -- A Hole in a Foxhole -- Obsession -- Yaron Svoray's Journey -- A Chance for Riches -- Persuasion -- To Alsace -- Finding a Friend -- The Missing Dozen -- Playing the Media Card -- From the Air -- Raising Money -- Neo-Nazis -- A Hunting Expedition -- KZ Sachsenhausen: The Master Forger -- Escape -- Zuckerman -- A Changed Mission -- End of the Journey -- Into the Forest -- Cursed Diamonds -- Rhodes Versus Barnato -- Coming Home.".
- catalog description "They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps ... and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest ... and of his unbelievable success.".
- catalog extent "285 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0765307952".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Forge,".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog subject "940.53/1813 21".
- catalog subject "D804.7.E26 S85 2003".
- catalog subject "Diamonds Germany History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects Germany.".
- catalog subject "Jewish property Germany.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions Germany.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Economic aspects Germany.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Journey of the Diamonds -- First Words -- Origins -- Moving West -- Diamonds and Jews -- A New Discovery -- The Greatest Discovery -- The Camps -- KZ Majdanek -- KZ Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- KZ Vught -- Sam Nyer's Journey -- A World at War -- Out of the Mountains -- Plunder -- Killing Fields -- A Hole in a Foxhole -- Obsession -- Yaron Svoray's Journey -- A Chance for Riches -- Persuasion -- To Alsace -- Finding a Friend -- The Missing Dozen -- Playing the Media Card -- From the Air -- Raising Money -- Neo-Nazis -- A Hunting Expedition -- KZ Sachsenhausen: The Master Forger -- Escape -- Zuckerman -- A Changed Mission -- End of the Journey -- Into the Forest -- Cursed Diamonds -- Rhodes Versus Barnato -- Coming Home.".
- catalog title "Blood from a stone : the quest for the life diamonds / Yaron Svoray and Richard Hammer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".