France to pay Holocaust survivors over deportations

December 06, 2014 03:18

France agreed on Friday to compensate Holocaust victims who had been deported via its state railway during World War II.

Under the deal, negotiated by the United States and France, France will pay American and other Holocaust survivors out of a $60 million fund. In return, the United States is expected to help ease obstacles impeding the French national railway company, the Socit Nationale des Chemins de Fer Franais, from participating in railway projects that had been held up by American lawmakers, survivors and their heirs as a way to press for a resolution of the compensation issue.

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