Great documentary!
And totally SHAMELESS of the Ashkenazis(European,Caucasian converts)and the American Jewish money-mafia in New York to treat their OWN Jewish survivors/people,who they outrageously assume are 'lesser' Jews,in the same racist,bigotted manner that the German Nazi's treated the Jews and other minorities in WW2.
Outrageous of the WJC/JCC extortionists and grave-robbers,to 'assume' responsibility and control of money and properties,that belong to REAL SURVIVING victims,not those who often pretend at being "victims",bbut were NEVER there.
Anyone of any nationality can go to Israel and be given new condos and land at give away prices,as long as they are Jewish,and yet the WJC and JCC ignore and shut away in hospitals,or in private poverty,the people who actually survived WW2,and the WJC/JCC take the profits and INTEREST from that compensation,stash it in Swiss/Tel Aviv bank accounts and build corporate museums for The Holocaust Industry Inc?
Outrageous and criminal.
How many actual survivors could benefit individually from the BILLIONS that has bilked from them to sustain an industry?
Israel,and the US Ashkenazis demean the holocaust,by making it into a 'theme park' business,while Jewish survivors,real humans,GO WITHOUT!
That is an insult to Judaism and humanity.
SHAMEFUL.
Powerful documentary,and very honest.

I recently worked for a Jewish agency that disperses Claims Conference monies to holocaust survivors for a whole state. The money is completely mismanaged. There are nonsensical restrictions placed on it (you can't buy food for the survivor, but you can offer a maid while survivors struggle financially. The paperwork and time it takes to get the help to the survivor, is disgraceful (sometimes months). There is a socialization club, once a month, (Cafe Europa) for the 25 or more survivors that participate, which receives $3,000 a year by the Conference, while Yad Vashem gloats in its millions of $ restoration.
It's shameful.
However, we shouldn't be surprised or naive. There is this allusion that we, the Jewish people, who suffered throughout history have compassion for the vulnerable and have a special obligation to uphold justice and tzedekah. However, this is far from the truth, as the very rich, or people who control vast sums of money, regardless of religion, always share similar traits of greediness and corrupt practices. The lower East Side of NY was a case in point. The rich Askenazi on the East Side didn't want to mix with the "poorer" Jews, so they funneled money to the slums of the lower East Side. Nothing has changed.
The Jewish institutions in the USA have greatly failed in their education of Jewish youth, (intermarriage rate), and their silence on Israel's war on the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. The Claims Conference is following in these footsteps.

Viewers who would like to help Holocaust survivors might want to know about the Survivor Mitzvah Project, a group of volunteers who raise and deliver money to elderly and needy survivors living in Eastern Europe. Their website is http://www.survivormitzvah.org

As a traumatised of the holocaust myself, I am very glad that
this important story is finally shown on Israel TV and here in America.
I find it very regrettable that the filmmaker would not
interview the author who broke the story about 7 years ago.
His name is Norman Finkelstein and he wrote a book called
"the Holocaust Industry" which details the shameful handling of the
money.
I also advise anybody interested in the topic to watch the very important
contribution of ch 4 2 years ago on the subject:
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/B/battle/

... as they watch the film:

· Large monetary settlements were reached “in the name of the victims,” but so many aging survivors are in distress. What went wrong? If the system were working properly, there would not be over 80,000 survivors presently living at or below the poverty line in the U. S., and even more in Israel. No additional proof is needed of the failure of the lead organization on Holocaust restitution affairs – the Claims Conference -- to fulfill its responsibilities.

· Survivors have for years been systematically excluded and marginalized from decisions affecting their lives. If they had been meaningfully involved it is unlikely that over $100 million would have been diverted since 1995 for selected Holocaust education and memorial projects, many of them sponsored by the Claims Conference’s own constituent organizations. Instead, those funds would have gone to social services directly benefiting the lives of survivors in need.

· The Claims Conference is one of the largest corporate property holders in Germany, but operates largely “under the radar.” It controls a large portfolio of properties awarded through its special status under German law as “Successor Organization” for unclaimed pre-WWII Jewish-owned property. Yet these properties have never been publicly identified, nor have any of the thousands of property transactions over the past 15 years been disclosed. This lack of transparency is out of step with the public mission in which the Claims Conference says it is engaged.

· The Claims Conference is a self-appointed umbrella body of 24 leading and lesser-known Jewish organizations mostly based in the U.S., Israel and Europe (only two of which are survivor groups). Who holds the Claims Conference accountable in the end? Are their actions truly in the Jewish public interest?