Dutch national rail company offers $5.6 million for Holocaust-era transport of Jewish victims
June 26, 2020
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch national rail company said it would pay 5 million euros, or $5.6 million, to Holocaust commemoration institutions, including the museums at three former concentration camps, Westerbork, Vught and Amersfoort.
Dutch Jews said the offer is disappointingly low and urged the company, NS, to reconsider.
NS allocated more than $40 million last year toward compensating survivors. It has also spent millions of dollars on Holocaust commemoration projects.
But the World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, and the Central Jewish Board of Dutch Jewish organizations said in a joint statement Friday that NS should also offer compensation directly to the families of the Jews it transported to their deaths. It is estimated that NS sent 102,000 Jews to be murdered during the Holocaust.
https://www.jta.org/2020/06/26/globa...jewish-victims