(JTA) — Holocaust survivors and their families have sued Hungary and its two railroad companies for allegedly collaborating with the Nazis to commit genocide against the Jews.
The lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia requests class-action status. Some 300 survivors are identified as members of the class, but the number could climb as high as 5,000, Reuters reported. The lawsuit does not specify damages.
It accuses the Hungarian government and the railroad companies of seizing Jewish property and transporting its owners to ghettos and concentration camps in Poland and Ukraine.
"The Jewish victims of the Hungarian Holocaust seek only what is due them — compensation and restitution for the atrocities they suffered at the hands of the defendants," the lawsuit said, according to Reuters.
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