Lecture
Trudy Gold
Wednesday 11.03.2026
Trudy Gold
Appeasement and Its Consequences for the Jews
Wednesday 11.03.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 11 March at 5:00pm (UK).
Summary
In the 1920s and 30s, Britain ruled a quarter of the world, including the mandate in Palestine. Yet the consequences of WWI, economically, socially, and psychologically, meant there was no stomach for another war. Successive British governments dealt with the rise of fascism in Europe and particularly Nazism in Germany, by appeasing the monster, which included Hitler’s antisemitic policies. This presentation examines the impact of Western quiescence on the fate of the Jews, and to what extent nascent antisemitism played its part. We also examine the role of Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, who went hunting on Herman Goering’s estate, and the influential “Milner’s Kindergarten,” whose members included the editor of the Times newspaper.
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.