Trudy Gold
Great Jewish Cities: Łódź
Summary
Łódź was one of the most important Jewish cities in the world, of huge significance culturally and religiously. Known as the Manchester of Poland, it was at its height home to 200,000 Jews. Every aspect of the Jewish experience was present—Jews as capitalists, Jews as Bundists, and Jews as Zionists. This session will examine its history and some of the extraordinary characters who were born and lived there. We will end by examining the controversial Chaim Rumkovski, head of the Judenradt during the Nazi occupation.
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.