Brooklyn, NY – The Claims Conference fired three employees last week who allegedly approved more than 100 fraudulent Holocaust-era claims — filed primarily by Russians now living in Brooklyn — that bilked the German government out of more than $350,000, The Jewish Week has learned.
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A federal investigation has reportedly been launched but it is not known if the employees, one of whom was the supervisor of the Hardship Fund, were complicit in the fraud. The Claims Conference declined to reveal their names.
“The German government was defrauded,” said Gregory Schneider, the Claims Conference’s executive vice president. “No money was taken from Holocaust survivors. … This was done by very sophisticated persons or a group whose aim it was to defraud. And the fact that it is connected with the Holocaust makes it even more disgusting.”
Julius Berman, chairman of the Claims Conference, said he was “outraged that anyone would engage in a fraud of what we consider holy money.”
Holy money? You mean holy blood money.
Nothing new , I was born in vienna and for this reason I never was entitled or received reparations, Widergutmachung from Germany. I was four years in various cocentration camps. When the Swiss gold bars [teeth from Brokenau] weere paid out the German authority [Stiftung …ect] withdrew the adjudication of money from N.Y. because payments were made to persons who never were in a concentration camp. Everyone is observing Yom Hashoah but who cares about the survivors
even more nauseating than profiteering off the holocust, is calling blood money “holy” – if you’re happy to sell your parents blood for a little baksheesh I’m not going to judge, but don’t drag god in as your alibi
Russians wanting money? What a joke. How stupid can one be to believe things coming out of a rusha mouth? Wherever there will be big money expect fraud.
FYI . My monthly restitution check goes straight to schar-limud for my einiklich.
My father tried to get help from the Claims Dept about his vacation money. They refused to help him, money that was religiously well deserved! Look at who did get it! What a shame that those who deserve it, dont get it!
Re ; to # 9. Why does your father need to go on vacation ? After all that he went through in lagers,just being in America is a great vacation .
The postings really show ahavas Yisroel. In the winter in Florida full of Satamrer chasidim and their spouses and in the summer the Catskills and Aidarondacks full of chasidishe and misnagdishe Yidden sitting in comfortable bungalows and a Yid who faced death every day and starved and survived the kivshon heish is begrudged for wanting a vacation, shame on you, throw away your tefillin.