Trudy Gold
The Allied Declaration of 17th December 1942
Summary
The Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations announced the Holocaust to the world. Trudy Gold emphasizes the importance of knowledge and addresses the Allied declaration, focusing on the critical period of 1945–1948. She delves into the bureaucratic aspects of the Wannsee House meeting and reflects on how dehumanization occurred within the Nazi bureaucracy. She also explores the complexities of rescuing Jews during World War II, the Allies’ reluctance to take action against the Holocaust, and today’s struggle for Jewish rights.
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.
There’s a war on, there are 900,000 of them. You did have Jan Karski coming in and there were reports about what happens in the East, but were Hungarian jury alerted? That is one of the problems. You know, at the Eichmann trial, the leader of Hungarian jury, Philip Freudigatt, was sent information. He refused to hand it on because he thought there’d be a terrible panic. You know, I always remember what Anita Lascavalvish says to me, “When you are in hell, don’t judge. Judge the perpetrators, judge the collaborators.”
Arm ourselves, study our history, learn, you know, I do not believe every Gentile is an anti-Semite, by the way, but I think you’ve got a 2000 year old history of negativity that has to be countered. And let me just be a little bit more positive. It is only in the world of monotheism, this kind of hatred. You do not find it in China. You do not find it in Hindu India. And up until the modern period, it was never as dark in the Muslim world, by the way.
The Zionists would say that the Jews of Germany and Austria could certainly have been saved. Would it have meant that the Arabs would rise up against the British? Well, they did actually. There was an uprising in Iraq, an uprising in Syria. There was an uprising in Egypt.