Dutch railway compensates Holocaust victims | Currently Europe | '
The railway will provide several million euros for it, said railway boss Roger van Boxtel in Utrecht. On behalf of the German occupiers, about 110,000 Jews and Sinti and Roma had been deported to the German-built Westerbork deportation camp during the Second World War. Only a few thousand survived.
From Westerbork, about 25 kilometers from the German border near Groningen, the people were then transported to the extermination camps in eastern Europe. "These transports took place to eradicate them as a population," van Boxtel said. "Compensation will never diminish personal suffering."
The wagons with which Dutch and German Jews were deported to concentration camps are now in the Westerbork Memorial
In total, the 5,000 to 6,000 survivors of the German extermination camps or their relatives are to be compensated. From August they will receive between 5,000 and 15,000 euros per person.
Profitable business
The railway had already announced in 2018 to want to compensate the victims of the Holocaust. A commission headed by the former Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, now worked out this regulation. The journalist and former physiotherapist Salo Muller (83) had taken the initiative. His Jewish parents were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany and murdered there. The Dutch railways had never protested against the transports and earned about 2.5 million gulden.
cgn / rb (dpa, rp-online, anp)
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