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.