To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.

This bill, introduced as the Holocaust Victims’ Redress Act, would allow survivors and heirs of those deported to Nazi concentration camps during World War II to sue foreign railroad companies in United States federal courts. It specifically removes legal barriers that typically prevent such lawsuits, such as statutes of limitations or laws that limit the jurisdiction of U.S. courts over foreign entities. If passed, the legislation would provide a legal pathway for individuals to seek financial damages for personal injury or death resulting from the operation of deportation trains between 1942 and 1944.