A Dutch railway company, which receives money from the Nazis to transport Jews to concentration camps, will pay compensation to the victims and their families.
SputniknewsAccording to the news in; “A Dutch railway company, which receives money from the Nazis to transport Jews to concentration camps, has announced that it will pay compensation to the families of nearly 100 genocide victims, including surviving Holocaust victims.
Roger van Boxte, CEO of the Dutch state railway company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), compensated for a transport agreement signed with Nazi Germany during World War II during a Utrecht Railway Museum event, both to survivors of Holocaust victims and families of genocide victims. announced that it would be paid.
Van Boxtel, said in a statement at the event, 15 thousand euros by rail transport and surviving victims will receive, 5 to 7 thousand 500 thousand XNUMX victims will be paid between the victims said.
The decision to collectively reward the Holocaust victims came after a 83-year-old Dutch physiotherapist, Salo Muller, whose parents moved to a camp in Westerbork, the Netherlands, by NS trains before being killed at Auschwitz.
In 2017, 12 years after NS apologized for being involved in the Holocaust, Muller began legal proceedings in hopes of receiving individual compensation.
NS CEO van Boxtel announced in November that a committee will be set up to 'determine how to compensate victims' to end legal processes between the company and the families of the Holocaust victims transported by rail.
On the other hand, it is reported that NS bought 2.5 million Dutch guilds from Nazi Germany.