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When Charles’s mother goes missing, the FBI has little hope to find her alive: she’s a diamonds dealer. The missing persons case quickly turns into a murder investigation, but with the money belt she always wore nowhere to be found, Charles begins to suspect everyone involved.

Whilst seeking the truth about her murder, Charles comes across an unexpected revelation: he was adopted from an orphanage for Jewish children fleeing the Nazis in WWII.

This sets off a search for his biological parents, which takes Charles to New York and Europe. As he’s just lost his adoptive mother, Charles soon finds a whole new family, scattered around the world, with little idea of each other’s existence. This is the moving story of their coming together and piecing back the puzzle of their respective histories.

Murder in the House of Diamonds: A True Story by Charles Kane

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This is not a work of fiction. It is the story of a man who goes searching for his past in an attempt to solve a murder. It begins shortly after his birth in Brussels during the Nazi occupation. Thirty-five years later, Charles Kane would learn that his birth mother had been killed at Auschwitz. He would come to this discovery after the murder of his adoptive mother, a diamond dealer — and one of several Jewish jewelers who met violent fates in beautiful San Juan during the dark decade of the 1970s.

With the help of several organizations, including the FBI and Jewish and Christian groups, as well as a Belgian journalist, Charles manages to find and connect with some of his blood relatives. And with the investigative skills he developed through his work as a U.S. customs, immigration, and border protection officer, he puts enough pieces together to force the FBI to reveal the known identity of the murderers.

According to French historian Jacques de Launay, only three thousand Jewish children survived deportation. Charles J. Kane is one of them.