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Blood from a stone : the quest for the life diamonds / Yaron Svoray and Richard Hammer.
LIBRA - Special D804.7.E26 S85 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Svoray, Yaron.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Economic aspects--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Germany.
- Diamonds--Germany--History--20th century.
- Diamonds.
- Jewish property--Germany.
- Jewish property.
- History.
- Germany.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Forge, 2003.
- Summary:
- Blood from a Stone is a tale of fantastic treasure and unbearable tragedy. It is the subject of the most ambitious documentary ever produced by A&E and the History Channel, featuring extensive re-creations and authentic historical details, set to air in June 2003. They were known as Life Diamonds. Bought by Jews in Eastern Europe, meant to be a passport to safety when peril descended. Blood from a Stone tracks forty of these diamonds through the diamond centers of Amsterdam and Antwerp to the ghettoes of Easter Europe, through the Nazi death camps and finally, to a foxhole somewhere on the border between France and Germany.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0765307952
- OCLC:
- 51511290
- Online:
- Publisher description
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