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Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from transport trains at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944 (The Auschwitz Album)
February 8, 2019, 10:02 am
US distributes further $30m to survivors of France Holocaust train deportations
State Department to administer monies as part of agreement with Paris over national rail system which transported Jews to Nazi death camps
By Ron Kampeas
An abandoned station in Pithiviers, France. (screen capture: Google Street View)
December 27, 2018, 6:47 am
France to build Holocaust museum at train station used in transports
CRIF umbrella group of French Jews to help design museum at Pithiviers station, from which some 16,000 Jews were sent to be murdered in death camps
By JTA
Jacques Stuzalft, left, helps unveil a plaque remembering the rescue of Jewish children of Lille, France, by local railway workers at a ceremony in the northern French city, Sept. 9, 2016. (City of Lille, via Facebook)
September 24, 2016, 10:13 am
French Holocaust survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers
Jacques Stuzalft teams up with local historian in bid to recognize French railway workers who saved dozens of children from Nazis on eve of Jewish New Year in 1942
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: This Monday August20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
November 3, 2015, 9:36 pm
French state rail company to compensate Holocaust deportees
French-funded, US-administered program now taking applications to pay out $60 million to survivors, relatives
By Angela Charlton
This Monday Aug. 20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris, France. From Aug. 20, 1941 until the end of World War II, more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children passed through Drancy on their way to Nazi extermination camps, particularly Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
April 18, 2015, 1:46 am
French railway Holocaust lawsuit aims to fill gaps
After Paris agrees to pay $60 million to victims, lawyer says suit seeks to hold SNCF accountable for actions during World War II
By Olivia Hampton
This Monday Aug. 20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris, France. From Aug. 20, 1941 until the end of World War II, more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children passed through Drancy on their way to Nazi extermination camps, particularly Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 5, 2014, 6:51 pm
France to compensate thousands of Holocaust deportees
Rail firm SNCF, which transported 76,000 French Jews to Nazi concentration camps, to pay $60 million in reparations
By AP and AFP
An original railway carriage stands at the Judenrampe platform at Auschwitz (Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons)
April 10, 2014, 3:27 am
US in talks with France over Holocaust reparations
White House warns individual state legislatures against taking action to punish French railway co. that deported Jews to Nazi camps
By Matthew Lee
Railway tracks lead to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
February 24, 2014, 12:22 pm
US, France in talks for rails Holocaust reparations
French national train company SNCF transported 76,000 Jews and other prisoners to death camps
By JTA
French President Francois Hollande, right, welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 8. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/ GPO/Flash90)
April 15, 2013, 10:41 am
French rail firm accused of banning blacks for Peres visit
SNCF management ordered African staff removed from station welcoming ceremony out of fear they may be Muslim
By Stuart Winer
Holocaust survivor and former US Congressman Tom Lantos in 2005. (photo credit: AP Photos/Ng Han Guan)
June 22, 2012, 10:31 am
Lantos widow backs Holocaust insurance bill
Opponents say the bill usurps executive branch primacy in determining foreign policy and would upend delicate negotiations with a number of European governments
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