The railway company, which also transported many Jews to the national border during the war on behalf of the German occupier, referred in a letter to a resolution from 1944. It stated that the government would pay the costs of the return of Jews to the Netherlands.
The head of the National Assembly’s Commercial Department announced that on July 25, 1945, 395 Jews arrived by additional train from Basel in Switzerland, where they had previously been received. In the following days, 326 of them traveled to Nijmegen, and the rest were transported by bus.
Initially, the National Assembly requested compensation from the Jewish Coordination Committee, which was involved in receiving Jews returning after the war. That organization referred the National Assembly to the government. The letter from the railway company is addressed to the Ministry of Social Affairs.
“We would like to hear from you if we can charge you for the above mentioned transfer,” the NS president wrote. Then the relevant Minister of Social Affairs sent the letter to the head of the military body, because he probably had to pay the amount.
