Source: BBC News
The Netherlands’ state-run rail company NS has agreed to set up a commission to compensate Holocaust survivors and their relatives for transporting Jews to a Nazi transit camp.
Its decision to “learn, honour and remember in an enduring way” followed a campaign by Salo Muller, whose parents were murdered at Auschwitz.
Some 107,000 Jews were taken to Westerbork and deported, mainly to deaths camps at Auschwitz and Sobibor.
Only 5,000 survived.
NS said it had decided to avoid a legal battle, years after French rail company SNCF was ordered to pay compensation for its role in deporting 76,000 French Jews during World War Two.
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