Victoria - A retired French expatriate living in Canada is suing France's state-owned railway for its role in the deportation of his parents to Nazi concentration camps during the second World War.
Mr Jean-Jacques Fraenkel (67), who filed a similar suit against the French government, accuses the French National Railway Company (SNCF) of collaborating with the Nazis during the German occupation of France.
"The SNCF, which was private at the time, collaborated without any kind of individual or collective opposition in the deportation of close to 80,000 Jews to the death camps," he said this week.
Mr Fraenkel said he was accusing both the company and the government of receiving stolen goods and crimes against humanity.