French-US Fund to Compensate for Holocaust Deportations

Holocaust survivors and family members in the U.S., Israel and elsewhere can now apply for compensation from a $60 million fund for those deported to Nazi camps by France's state rail company, SNCF. The application period for the French-funded, U.S.-administered program opened Tuesday. The money will be available for deportees, or spouses or family members of deportees who have since died. "We consider this a very important day. People have waited 70 years,'' Stuart...

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