France - Holocaust Victim's Families Demand $162M From Government

France - Buoyed by a recent French court decision, families of hundreds of Holocaust victims are demanding more than $162 million from the government of France and the country's national railroad.

Letters making the demands went out to the French Interior Ministry and to SNCF, lawyer, Harriet Tamen, said. The 378 letters request reparations for the pain and suffering that hundreds of victims and survivors endured.
In all, Ms. Tamen said she represents the families of 671 Holocaust victims and 111 survivors who were interned in French camps and then transported by French rail eastward and mostly to their deaths, she said.

200 other families are also planning to file such letters in France. "I expect they're going to ignore the letters and then we're going to have to go to court in France," Ms. Tamen said, referring to SNCF and the French government.