Trudy Gold
The Jews of Hungary, Part 3
Summary
In March 1944, the Nazis were losing the war, but they took control of Hungary, deporting nearly half a million jews into concentration camps. This particular period of the war highlights the fact that Nazi leaders prioritized murder over winning the war. Part 3 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.
You’re applying reason and these were fanatics. When people get caught in a fanatical ideology, they have no flexibility of thought.
It’s not quite as easy as that. In fact, Switzerland has a very, very chequered history. However, from ‘44 onwards there were more reports in the Swiss newspapers of what was going on than all the press combined in the West.
Yes. Something like 150,000 Hungarian soldiers died fighting on the Russian front.