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PositionSTATELINE - Holocaust reparations and light-rail contract to Keolis in Maryland - Brief article

A bill in the Maryland General Assembly would prohibit the state from awarding a $2.2 billion light-rail contract to a construction company unless its French-owned parent company first pays reparations to Holocaust victims transported on its trains. Senator Joan Carter Conway's (D) bill would affect Keolis, a rail company whose majority owner is SNCF, the government-owned French railway. Historians say SNCF trains carried nearly 76,000 Jews and other Nazi prisoners to the French-German border on their way to extermination camps during World War II. Keolis officials have said the Paris-based company, founded in...

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