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Holland's national railway company is to compensate victims of the Holocaust. World War II over 70 years ago, but the Dutch railway has to give compensation to people who were to Nazi concentration camps on their trains. The company is as NS. After Germany Holland in 1940, NS trains thousands of Jews and other minorities to Nazi death camps. By the end of 1943, most Jews in the Netherlands had been and deported. Seven decades later, NS will tens of millions of euros to about 500 survivors and to members of their direct family. The company will between 5,000 euros to 15,000 euros to each victim.

The company the payments were part of the company's historical responsibility. It said the company was by the Nazis to the victims to the border. The victims were on German trains and to concentration camps. A spokesman said this was "a black page in the history of the company". He : "There is no reasonable or appropriate amount of money that [we can pay to] in any way for the suffering on the victims." The committee said the payments were "a moral gesture". It added: "NS wishes to the recognition of its share in the individual suffering by the occupying forces on those involved and their direct surviving relatives."