Trudy Gold
Holocaust Memorial Day: How Did the Holocaust Happen?
Summary
An essential discussion on the significance of Holocaust Memorial Day and the historical roots of anti-Semitism, negative stereotypes that have persisted over the centuries, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany.
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.
Quite important, Goebbels actually writes about it in his diary. He says of the West, that we’re better than the so-called civilised world, we say what we’re going to do. After Evian, Hitler sent 18,000 Eastern European Jews to the Polish border, a promise he made in the German Workers’ Party manifesto.
Yes, of course. Getting rid of Jews was also business. In 1938, Eichmann set up an immigration bureau in Vienna and in Berlin, confiscating Jewish money.