Trudy Gold
Resistance in the Ghettos, Part 1
Summary
The forms of resistance in the Jewish ghettos, particularly the Warsaw Ghetto, emphasizing the complexity of Jewish-Polish relations as documented by historian Emanuel Ringelblum from within the Warsaw Ghetto, and the powerful story of Janusz Korczak, a heroic educator who chose to stay with his orphanage children in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, ultimately perishing with them in Treblinka. Part 1 of 3.
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.
They were pushed into the ghetto from the countryside. This is the stage in the beginnings when the Germans want concentration, they haven’t actually decided exactly what they’re going to do with them. Of course, Jews are dying of starvation, they’re being shot but the final solution, the plan begins with the invasion of Russia. And you’ve got to remember you didn’t have choices.