Holocaust survivors sue Hungarian railway company in Chicago court

Heirs of Holocaust survivors have filed a lawsuit in Chicago against the Hungarian state railway company MÁV, demanding compensation for MÁV’s involvement in deporting Jews to the Nazi camps during World War II. The Hungarian news agency MTI reports that the plaintiffs, who are mostly descendants of Holocaust survivors living in Israel and the US, demand compensation worth a total of US$ 1.24 billion.

Based on several years of investigations, they claim that MÁV provided train wagons for the deportation, "being fully aware" that they would be used to transport 437,000 Jews to the gas chambers of Auschwitz between March and October 1944.

The complaint was submitted to the Northern District Court of Illinois, and a judge has already been chosen, MTI reports.