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Rositta Ehrlich Kenigsberg, vice president at the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center in South Florida,Juicy Couture tracksuits said corporations such as SNCF have long used coercion as an excuse. She said SNCF profited greatly from the transports, charging per person and kilometer.

“Being a collaborator and saying you were coerced is not acceptable,’’ she said. “Nobody bought that at the Nuremberg Trials, Rwanda, Darfur, and other genocides. You can’t help murder people and then just say, ‘Well,juicy couture handbag we were coerced.’ ’’

In California, lawmakers passed a bill last month that forces companies hoping to compete for a piece of California’s $45 billion high-speed rail project to disclose whether they transported Holocaust victims. SNCF said it has no problems with the bill.

US Representative Ron Klein, a Democrat who represents portions of Broward and Palm Beach counties, which have a high Jewish population, said he was writing a letter to Florida Governor Charlie Crist asking for some of the same things Goldstein wants.

SNCF employs 175,000 people and is generally respected as a heavyweight in French industry. But the company has had a hard time erasing its past.

Between 1941 and 1944, 3,000 rail wagons were used by the SNCF to transport Jews to Nazi death .juicy couture jewelry, according to a study by French historian Christian Bachelier, ordered by SNCF in 1996. The study points out that there were acts of resistance, but they were sparse, isolated, and mostly by workers — not SNCF administration.