title: Blood from a Stone: The Quest for the Life Diamonds
author: Richard Hammer
description: <div>The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Blood from a Stone</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Blood from a Stone</i> is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. <i>Blood from a Stone</i> will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary. <br></div>
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  BLOOD DIAMOND
  
  
  An absolutely addictive crime thriller with a huge twist
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  BILL KITSON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DI MIKE NASH BOOK 7
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THIS IS A REVISED EDITION OF A BOOK FIRST PUBLISHED AS “BURIED IN THE PAST”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Revised edition 2020
  
  
  Joffe Books, London
  
  
  
  
  
  © Bill Kitson
  
  
  First published as “Buried in the Past” in Great Britain 2014
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations,
  places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental. The spelling used is British English
  except where fidelity to the author’s rendering of accent or dialect
  supersedes this. The right of Bill Kitson to be identified as author of this
  work has been asserted by him in accor