Separately, Amsterdam’s transportation company said it would look as ways to “come to terms” with its employees role in the dispatch of thousands of victims.
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.
The United States and France have tentatively arrived at a $60 million lump sum agreement to settle claims by survivors deported to Nazi camps through the French rail system.