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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Evian and Kristallnacht

Thursday 3.12.2020

Summary

Trudy Gold discusses the gradual escalation of Nazi policies against Jews in Germany, including exclusion from citizenship, intermarriage laws, economic restrictions, and increasing social and legal discrimination. She discusses the Evian conference, chaired by James P. McDonald, which aimed to address the situation of German Austrian refugees and highlight the importance of documenting personal memories to understand this dark period of history.

Trudy Gold

An image of Trudy Gold

Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.