Holocaust survivors want truth from rail company

SNCF, a French company, is trying to get involved in Florida's high speed rail project, but Holocaust survivors are speaking out against the company.

The company is getting ready to make a bid on the state’s $2.6 billion project.

Before that bid is seriously considered though, Holocaust survivors want something they've been asking for nearly 60 years.

For Rosette Goldstein and other Holocaust survivors, it’s important for the public to know how her father and thousands of others were delivered to concentration camps by a SNCF train.

"My cousins, my uncle and aunt were murdered as soon as they got to Auschwitz,” Goldstein said. “My father was murdered slowly."

Goldstein said SNCF has denied its role in the Holocaust for decades and never apologized or fully disclosed their records.

After the Nazis invaded France, the company said it was forced to transport Jews.

Goldstein said the company did it willingly and for a profit.

"I was saved by a French family,” Goldstein said. “They were also threatened with death, but they did the right thing. Many companies were threatened with death, but they did the right thing. SNCF didn't."

The rail company is trying to make amends now.

In a statement to the Associated Press, a company attorney at SNCF said, "We plan to have full disclosure of our records and complete transparency. The fact is many railway workers were killed by Nazi's, many were bullied and the company was under control of an occupied government."

For Goldstein and others, that’s not good enough. She doesn't want the rail project stopped, nor SNCF to be excluded from the bidding process.

She just wants the company to come clean about the past.