According to an article in the July 13 New York Times, Hungarian Holocaust survivors are trying to sue entities in the country for losses suffered during the Holocaust, citing the following account that had occurred at the time: Iren Gitta Kellner was a teenager when her parents, eight siblings and hundreds of other Jews in their Hungarian town were ordered to the train station with suitcases and crammed into cattle cars by national railway workers who looted their bags on the platform.

She was sent to Auschwitz, among the more than 400,000 Jews in Hungary who were deported to the concentration camp in German-occupied Poland over six weeks in 1944. It was a notoriously brutal period of the Nazi campaign to eliminate European Jewry in World War II. Ultimately about two-thirds of Hungary’s 800,000 Jews were killed.

Ms. Kellner survived, making her way to the United States. She spent her final years fighting, unsuccessfully, for some justice, suing Hungary’s national railway for its participation in the genocide. Now a group of other survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust are hoping that American judges will hear their claims against the national railway in U. S. courts. It is not their first attempt, but it may well be one of their last, and could represent the final hope for relief for a dwindling number of living victims of the atrocities in Hungary.

Whatever happens in the U.S. courts, Ms. Kellner will not get relief. She died late in 2017. “She never lived to see a measure of justice in this case, but her courageous lifetime is a reminder that we must never forget the millions whose intentional slaughter she did survive to recount,” said Richard Weisberg, one of the lawyers representing the survivors.