{"id":209832,"date":"2020-07-05T07:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T07:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209832"},"modified":"2020-07-07T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:22:00","slug":"dutch-national-rail-company-offers-5-6-million-for-holocaust-era-transport-of-jewish-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209832","title":{"rendered":"Dutch national rail company offers $5.6 million for Holocaust-era transport of Jewish victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cnaan Liphshiz \u2013 Jewish Telegraph Agency June 26, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Railway tracks leading to the entrance of Auschwitz. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dutch Jews said the offer is disappointingly low and urged the company, NS, to reconsider.<\/span><\/p>\n

NS allocated<\/a><\/strong><\/span> more than $40 million last year toward compensating survivors. It has also spent millions of dollars on Holocaust commemoration projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of working together with the Jewish community to acknowledge the past and provide a \u2018collective expression of recognition,\u2019 NS has chosen once again to act with disregard to the Jewish community that was devastated by NS\u2019s actions during the Holocaust. We urge NS to reconsider,\u201d Eddo Verdoner, president of the Central Jewish Board, wrote in a statement about his organization\u2019s meeting with the chief executive officer of NS, Roger van Boxtel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a shame that NS has chosen not to take this opportunity\u201d to address the subject, said Gideon Taylor, WJRO\u2019s chair of operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

NS did not respond directly to the criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNS considers cooperation with these deportations by the occupying forces to be a black page in the history of the company,\u201d read the NS statement, which offered an overview of its restitution expenditures and contributions to commemorative projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

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