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Lecture

Trudy Gold
The Jews of Hungary, Part 1

Tuesday 4.05.2021

Summary

Trudy Gold discusses the Jews of Hungary, focusing on the tragic events of March 1944 when Hungarian Jewry faced Nazi deportations. She delves into the Inter-Allied Declaration, the Shoah, the Allies’ limited actions, the historical significance of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Hungary, the aftermath of the war, the Treaty of Trianon, and Bela Kun, a communist revolutionary born a Jew.

Trudy Gold

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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.