Holocaust Claims Committee Blasted  By Jay Bushinsky The
Washington Times  Aging Holocaust survivors, many in their late
70s and 80s, are complaining they suffer from poverty,
insufficient medical care and inadequate housing while the
organization that is supposed to care for them sponsors costly
educational projects and pays its executives lavish salaries.
The criticisms are directed at the Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany, which consists of 24 Jewish
organizations based in the United States and other countries. It
funnels money allocated by the German government to Jews who
were interned in Nazi death camps, were confined to ghettos and
suffered religious and racial persecution during World War II.
The claims conference, as it is popularly known, has financial
reserves that exceed $1 billion, according to experts. The sum
not only includes the constant and punctual flow of funds from
the Berlin government, but also money from dormant Swiss bank
accounts whose original owners perished in