Lawyer Charles Fax filed suit in Washington in October 2010 against the Hungarian state and MÁV as well as against Rail Cargo Hungária, the legal successor to MÁV Cargo, on behalf of at least 300 Holocaust survivors.

He accuses the railway companies of co-operating with Nazis in the extermination of Jews in World War II.

Several reports suggest that Csatáry, 98, played a key role in organising the deportations of Jews from Kosice as a police commander and that he personally took part in loading people onto wagons.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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