Covering Their Tracks

Please join us for a dinner and discussion with Holocaust survivor Rosette Goldstein and Adas member, Ma’alot parent, and pro bono lawyer Rafi Prober about the role they played in the pursuit of justice from SNCF, France’s national, state-owned railway, for transporting 76,000 Jews and thousands of others (including U.S. pilots shot down over France) toward concentration camps during the Holocaust. SNCF was paid per head and per kilometer to do so, and for decades refused to accept accountability. In what would become a front-page, international campaign for accountability that set off a diplomatic crisis that rose to the highest levels of the American and French governments, this campaign for justice was waged in the courtroom, in state legislatures throughout the country, in the halls of Congress, in diplomatic negotiations, in corporate boardrooms and in the court of public opinion, ultimately resulting in an historic 2014 agreement between the United States and France in which France funded a more-than-$60 million compensation fund for the victims and their families.  While no settlement could ever fully address these atrocities, this was an unprecedented and improbable settlement with the United States’ oldest ally, and ultimately helped pave the way for President Macron to deliver France’s most public and fulsome acknowledgment of the role it played in the Holocaust. In collaboration with Tablet Studios, Rafi has helped to create a five-part documentary podcast that tells this extraordinary story, available here – Covering Their Tracks.

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