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Dutch Jews disappointed by railways’ offer for Shoah memorial donation

Dutch Railways has previously offered €40m in compensation to survivors and their children, but not to remaining families of those murdered

June 28, 2020 10:48
Dutch Railways are estimated to have deported over 102,000 Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust
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Dutch Jews have expressed disappointment after the Netherlands’ state-owned railways said that it would donate €5 million to Holocaust memorials around the country. 

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) said that the donation, would go towards four Dutch Holocaust institutions, including former concentration camps at Westerbork, Vught and Amersfoort. 

Dutch Jews, however, said that the decision had been taken without consulting victims’ representatives and that compensation had not been made available to the surviving family members of those transported to their deaths on trains owned and operated by NS. 

In 2019, the NS pledged that it would provide more than €40 million in compensation to survivors and their children of those transported on Dutch trains.