Sarah Federman, a professor of conflict resolution at the University of Baltimore spoke to Mr. Day’s tenth grade English class about her research for her book The Last Train to Auschwitz, which published in April. He research followed the complicity of the French Metro, the SNCF, in its role in deporting Jews to Auschwitz in Nazi-controlled France. Doctor Federman helped students connections between the SNCF’s complicated relationship to the Holocaust and their own interactions with companies who have complicated relationships to similarly oppressive and exploitative practices today. Students considered the various roles corporations have had in oppression and genocide past and present, and how they might respond to them as consumers, and also asked Dr. Federman about her own career path, from college to corporate work to an MA, a PhD, and international conflict resolution consulting.
Caring About Conflicts
