Heirs of the victims of the Holocaust and their close family members are suing MÁV for Ft 250 billion in damages, arguing that the company provided the carriages for transport-ing 437,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz from March to October 1944 and for depriv-ing their victims of their assets.

MÁV has invited bids from 13 law firms in the US that have already proceeded in com-pensation cases. The winning bidder’s price tag must not exceed Ft 45 million.

Hungarian Jewish leaders earlier de-nounced the lawsuit as ill-considered."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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