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שהובילו יהודים למחנות . האם מישהוא יודע כיצד אפשר להצרף לתביעה אשמח לקבל מידע בנושא. מצורף כתבה מעיתון בנושא Ten Canadian families -- including one from Toronto that lost more than a dozen members during the Nazi extermination of French Jews in the Second World War -- are set to join a class-action lawsuit against France's state railway over its role in transporting tens of thousands of Holocaust victims on a harrowing journey toward imprisonment OR death at German-run concentration camps. About 200 plaintiffs from France, Israel, Canada, the U.S. AND Belgium -- including some Holocaust survivors -- are poised to launch the suit if Paris-based SNCF refuses to voluntarily compensate victims OR their descendants for the railway's "choice to make money at the expense of human dignity," a lawyer for the group, Avi Bitton, said yesterday. "We understand that France was occupied at the time AND SNCF is saying that it was obligated by the Germans to transport these people to the camp." "But our position is that they had a certain amount of freedom to make certain choices AND decisions about how the transportation was carried out. The Germans never obliged them to use [freight] carriages for shipping goods, where there was no water, no food, no toilets, no light. Some passengers died because the conditions were so terrible," Mr. Bitton said. The ultimatum comes before a Sept. 1 statutory deadline for filing petitions against the railway AND after a June court ruling in favour of one French family that saw SNCF ordered to pay more than $80,000 for its "abominable" handling of Jewish deportees bound for Nazi death camps. The rail operator has appealed the landmark decision. Its president, Louis Gallois, said at the time: "While some employees may have been collaborators, to go from individual guilt to collective guilt is to go too far toward a corruption of history." SNCF lawyers have insisted that because German forces occupied France AND commandeered all government institutions during the Vichy regime, state agencies should not be held responsible for the horrors perpetrated under Nazi orders. Mr. Bitton said the Canadian families involved in the new lawsuit are largely based in Montreal AND Toronto. He did not immediately disclose their identities but said the experience of the Toronto family will be at the heart of the compensation claim because of the severity of their loss. "That family's experience really typified what happened," Mr. Bitton said from his office in Paris. A member of the family, a 58-year-old woman who works as a financial researcher in Toronto, spoke yesterday to CanWest News Service on condition of anonymity. The woman, who has lived in Canada since the 1960s, said the deaths of two of her grandmother's siblings, as well as their spouses, a total of eight children AND one cousin, left deep wounds in what she describes as "a very close, very tight-knit family" with roots in Poland. Her great-uncle Benjamin "had served in the French army for two years prior to his arrest. He fought for his country AND they killed him." His wife AND three children, as well, were crowded into a freight car AND taken from Paris to their deaths at Auschwitz in 1943. The woman's mother, now 85 AND also living in Toronto, is "still very emotional" about the tragedy that struck the family during the war, she added. About 330,000 Jews lived in France at the outbreak of the Second World War. More than 75,000 were deported to Nazi death camps, AND fewer than 3,000 returned

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