Holocaust: France backs $60m compensation

Several thousand people could now be eligible for compensation, including nationals of Israel and Canada as well as Americans who were deported from France to the death camps some 70 years ago.

During the German occupation of France, the Nazi regime deported almost 76,000 Jews to concentration camps in French freight cars between 1942 and 1944.

Only around 3,000 survived.

The French government has already paid out another $60 million to French nationals who were victims of the Holocaust under a scheme set up in 1946.