French national railway SNCF

$30 million more allotted to survivors of French train deportations and families

Payments from France and administered by the U.S. had started with a like amount in 2014.

By Ron Kampeas February 7, 2019 4:29 pm

A French survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers

On the eve of the Jewish New Year in 1942, Jacques Stuzalft, then 10, was led to a train station for deportation to Auschwitz. Now he is working to get recognition for 24 heroes from the SNCF railway firm who saved him and dozens more.

September 23, 2016 3:40 pm

U.S.-run French Holocaust deportation compensation fund launches

SNCF, the railway owned by the French government, transported 76,000 Jews and other prisoners from Paris to the German border during the Holocaust, where they were taken to Nazi death camps.

November 3, 2015 12:44 pm