Holocaust survivors filed a class-action lawsuit in Newark, N.J., against several German firms that allegedly profited from slave labor during the Holocaust. The case comes on the heels of a similar lawsuit already filed in a Brooklyn court. Volkswagen, Krupp, Siemens and Daimler-Benz are among the firms named in the suits.
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