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?