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U.S. Begins Paying Out Reparations from France to Holocaust Survivors and Their Heirs


(Washington Post) Katherine Shaver - The State Department has paid or approved 90 claims for a total $11 million in reparations from France to former World War II prisoners who were carried to Nazi death camps in French trains, officials said Thursday. It is the first French compensation to Holocaust survivors who settled in the U.S. as well as Israel, Canada and other countries that haven't had a reparations agreement with France. It's also the first reparations program to include heirs of people who died before receiving compensation for the atrocities they or their spouses endured, State Department officials said. The state-owned French railway SNCF was paid to transport 76,000 Jews and other prisoners, usually with no food, to Nazi camps. All but about 2,000 were killed.
2016-09-16 00:00:00
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