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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

WWII survivors want aid

A POLISH concentration camp survivors' association urged German rail operator Deutsche Bahn Tuesday to provide humanitarian aid to people deported by its Nazi-era predecessor.

'The German railways want to enter the Polish market and make money in Poland. They already made plenty during World War II,' Stanislaw Zalewski, head of Poland's main association of former camp inmates, told AFP.

'We want them to devote part of their profits to humanitarian aid for concentration camp survivors and former forced labourers,' he said. 'Medical care and drugs cost a lot in Poland, and the majority of our members aren't well off,' Zalewski added.

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