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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Post 1945 Czechoslovakia and the Slansky Trial

Thursday 31.03.2022

Summary

Trudy Gold explores the history of Czechoslovakia after 1945 and details the horror of the Slánský Trial, a 1952 anti-Semitic show trial against fourteen members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Trudy Gold

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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.

He wanted to clean up Czechoslovakia. He wanted a scapegoat. The Jews will always be the best scapegoat, a witch hunt, rootless cosmopolitanism, Titoism.