Richard Yaffa, CEO of Media Ventures Group, is bullish on the series.

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He claimed that the unexplained money had come from a childless couple of Holocaust survivors, living in New York, who had adopted his wife, Yaffa, before they were married.

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"People are coming from all over, " Yaffa said.

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