Report: Holocaust compensation group withheld over a billion Euros from Jewish survivors

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From Haaretz:

Leading barrister Jeffrey for Board of Deputies of British Jews Jeffrey Gruder says conference did not hold the money for the owners or their heirs, but allocated it to other purposes.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, set up to restitute Jewish property, did not return all the funds it received from the German government to their Jewish owners or their heirs, a new report has found.

Ralph Falkenburg, of the United States, tried for years to find details of his eligibility to receive compensation for a business and properties is family had in Germany before the Holocaust. In 2008 Falkenburg found that the Claims Conference had received 700,000 euros from Germany for his family’s business and properties.

But all his attempts to receive information from the Claims Conference were in vain and his demand to expose the documents regarding his family’s property were rejected. Falkenburg died in July without receiving a single euro of his family’s fortune.

This is just one case of a number of incidents in which the conference did not act with complete transparency to help claimants apply for compensation, before allocating funds to other purposes, according to a report recently submitted to the Board of Deputies of British Jews by leading barrister Jeffrey Gruder.

Much more at the link. Because of the enormous payouts from various countries I think everyone just assumes that Holocaust survivors are actually being given adequate financial reparations. For the most part, this is simply not the case. Many Holocaust survivors are actually living in substandard living conditions, having to worry about where money for food, rent and medical bills is coming from after all they've endured. Norman Finkelstein has written the definitive book documenting this historic swindle and, if you can get your hands on a copy (you can usually find it at a library), it is as fascinating a read as it is a disturbing one.

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

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