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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Nazi Policies Toward Jews in the 1930s

Thursday 4.03.2021

Summary

An unflinching investigation of the systematic persecution, discrimination, and restrictions imposed by the Nazi regime leading to the Holocaust.

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.

There were about 5,000 of them who wanted to, but they weren’t allowed to.

There was an incredible demonstration in Rosenstrasse outside the Gestapo headquarters. The Nuremberg Laws had forbidden intermarriage, but if you already married, they couldn’t make you divorce. German women who married Jewish men went to Gestapo headquarters and they just sat there. Because the Nazis didn’t know how to deal with this very public descent of German women, the men were released. It’s an extraordinary situation.