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Railways were essential to carrying out the Holocaust – decades later, corporate reckoning continues

  • Written by Sarah Federman, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego
imageLiliane Lelaidier-Marton stands in front of the kind of car her parents were forced into in Drancy, France, when deported to their deaths.Sarah Federman

The Holocaust could not have happened without the railways.

Preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg underscored that almost everyone murdered at a camp arrived by train, including Jews, political...

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