Every Very Modern Jewish Family’s Nightmare

This is only a film. The subject has caused much grief to the Jewish Nation. It is a reminder of accusations concerning the genealogy of some holocaust survivors. This is a “hot” topic, one that will shatter many a well-meaning person.

NY Jewish family learns its beloved bubbe is really a Nazi nurse, in new film
“The Last”

In the new film “The Last,” the 92-year-old matriarch of a New York Jewish family reveals a secret that shakes its members to their core. Claire, suffering from terminal brain cancer, decides to tell her grandchildren and great-grandchildren the truth — that she is a Gentile German woman who has been posing as a Jew since World War II. Moreover, she was a proud Nazi party member who worked as a nurse, assisting murderous doctors at Auschwitz.

[. . .] As Claire shows her family a cache of old photos, diaries and letters, she tells them that her mother, a pregnant prostitute in danger of losing her baby (Claire) due to illness, sought Clauberg’s help. He was unable to save the mother, but the baby survived. He placed little Claire in a good orphanage in Leipzig and visited her regularly, becoming a father figure and mentor to her. As war approached, Clauberg enrolled 14-year-old Claire in a nursing program, and later brought her with him to Auschwitz.


“It was the safest place I could be,” the unrepentant Claire tells her Modern Orthodox great-grandson Josh and his new wife Olivia.

There is a ‘trailer video’ but it opens with a non tsnius scene. For this subject-matter to have entered the film creators imagination is a testament to the possibility of existence in reality.


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