Trudy Gold
Slovaks and Jews
Summary
In this lecture Trudy Gold explores what life was like for the Jews around the end of the Habsburg empire into the birth of Czechoslovakia.
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.
Well, the problem was, enter the Soviets, enter Stalin. Stalin played a blinder. He got all the way East, from the East to the West. Think of Germany divided up.
Because we need it as a buffer against communism, that doesn’t go away.