State of the United States seeks records of the Holocaust

 survivor of the Holocaust Leo Bretholz, right, urged Governor Martin O'Malley to support Bill A US Governor signed legislation requiring a French railway company to disclose its role in the Holocaust if it wants to get state contracts.

Martin O'Malley of Maryland signed an act Keolis, a company of Paris owned by French national railway SNCF.

The company had bid for the operation of commuter trains in the State of Maryland.

Historians claim that SNCF moved to 76,000 Jews in the Nazi camps during the Holocaust. Supporters of the legislation say it forces disclosure of Archives of war.

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"We hope that this legislation can become a national model earlier than later so that the survivors of the Holocaust who are still with us know that the atrocities inflicted on their families and their inhabitants will remain in our minds"will never be forgotten and will never be repeated "Thursday, said Mr. O'Malley."

According to the Bill, the first of its kind passed to the United States, the companies who participated in the deportation of Holocaust victims who seek contracts with Maryland commuter train system would have to make the Archives of the society relating to their available online to the public role.

The records of the company must be disclosed include correspondence, receipts, invoices, checks and internal notes.

In addition, companies would have to provide an account of the property forfeited to the victims of the Holocaust and a restitution account paid.

Bill is specifically aimed at a US arm of Keolis, a company based in Paris, whose majority shareholder is French railways national society or SNCF railroad.

Keolis had submitted a bid to provide commuter rail service along two lines in Maryland.

"Need the truth."

Survivor of the Holocaust Leo Bretholz, 90, insisted on the legislation and attended the ceremony of signing of the Bill.

"It's a start," said Mr. Bretholz, escaped a car of SNCF train en route to Auschwitz concentration camp. "Other States will likely take note and perhaps do the same.". We need of contrition. We need statements. We need the truth. ?

In January, Chairman SNCF that Guillaume Pepy apologized to the victim of the Holocaust is the company.

But some French historians have said that the company, an arm of the French State, was forced to his role in the Holocaust by the force of the German occupation.