Wednesday 14th January 2004

Hunt for Nazi Diamonds: The Great Adventure

This is the extraordinary story of Yaron Svoray and his ten-year search for buried treasure. In 1986 Svoray met an American war veteran who confessed that he had once stolen a bag containing 40 uncut diamonds from SS officers, then hidden them in a foxhole on a hillside in Alsace. The diamonds had never been recovered, so Svoray set off to find them, imagining a life of luxury in store. During his quest, he discovers how the Nazis came by their fortune and meets a Holocaust survivor in New York. Now Svoray is even more determined to find the diamonds, but for a different reason.