Transportations of Terror and Trauma

New World Slavery and the Holocaust were dependent upon the use of transportation systems, ships in terms of slavery and trains in terms of the Holocaust, to transport people to forced labor and death. Dr. Marcus Rediker, author of The Last Slave Ship, a Human History and Dr. Sarah Federman, author of Last Train to Auschwitz, discuss the interconnected roles these systems play in our memory of the atrocities and how they should be held accountable for their participation in these human tragedies.
This event is part of the 2024-25 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Circuitous Exchanges.” The event is organized by the KHC and is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; and the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University. For more information about the KHC, please visit khc.qcc.cuny.edu