FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) fellowship programs in Law, Business, Medicine, Journalism, and Seminary approach the study of the Holocaust in an intensive two-week program with a curriculum designed jointly by Yale, Columbia and Georgetown Universities. Now entering its ninth year, FASPE challenges graduate students and future leaders from different cultures and faiths to recognize and confront their ethical responsibilities in their chosen professions by analyzing decisions and actions of Nazi-era professionals and the part the various professions played in the measures that led to mass murder and the extermination itself.
Ancient Rome’s Emperor Titus isn’t a name that comes up at Holocaust events. Yet on March 5th, at the Fellowships at Auschwitz Ethical Leadership Awards Gala (FASPE) held at Manhattan’s Espace, 92 year old Marian Turski, survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, two death marches, and Theresienstadt, used this first century Roman to illustrate a moral conundrum involving historical evidence of the Warsaw Ghetto and linked it with FASPE’s role as ethical explorers.
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