William Tyler
Reflections on the Continuing Shadow of the Holocaust in Germany and Beyond
Summary
‘Never again’ was the clarion call of the Allies at Nuremberg in 1945. Nearly 80 years later the shadow created by Nazi antisemitism is again looming over much of Europe, including Germany. Trudy and William explore the current situation in Germany and across Europe, before returning to the central issues of why antisemitism is a growing European phenomenon, and how it differs from earlier forms of European antisemitism.
William Tyler
William Tyler has spent his entire professional life in adult education, beginning at Kingsgate College in 1969. He has lectured widely for many public bodies, including the University of Cambridge and the WEA, in addition to speaking to many clubs and societies. In 2009, William was awarded the MBE for services to adult education, and he has previously been a scholar in residence at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.
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.
My answer is a very simple one, if we’re dealing with the children through education, we deal with the parents through education, and that means through adult education. And adult education has collapsed across Western Europe. And not only across Western Europe, across the western world in general, and because governments don’t want to spend money on it. But we do have to spend money on educating because adults need to be educated as much on democracy as anybody else needs to, and I perhaps don’t even need to say that, do I?