Once again, France has illuminated what Abraham Lincoln called “the moral lights around us.” On December 8, 2014 in Washington, D.C. the French Human Rights ambassador, Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay, signed an agreement with Stuart Eizenstat, Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Holocaust Issues. As a result, survivors deported by the French railroad system, and their families living outside France, will obtain compensation for being deported by the trains of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) to Nazi concentration and death camps during World War II. By this new arrangement, France has faced up to its historic responsibilities and agreed to render belated, if imperfect, justice. It supplements the French pension programs by which French citizens in France since 1948 have been paid, but not those who left France after World War II. The agreement will cover not only Americans but also citizens of other countries,...(Read Full Article)