Trudy Gold
Jewish History in Latvia and Estonia, Part 2
Summary
A continuing exploration of Jewish history in 19th- and 20th-century Latvia and Estonia.
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.
Oh yes, of course they did. Arajs’ mother was a Baltic German. Yes, of course they did. But they had many nationalist associations, and anyone who’s on the fringe of a society, many of them were even more zealous for Nazism than were the Germans themselves. And you could also say the same about the Austrians. If you think about Hitler himself, Carlton, Brunner, Eichmann, they were Austrian Germans.