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Lecture

Trudy Gold
The Great Jewish Cities: Breslau

Thursday 15.05.2025

How to watch

This lecture starts on 15 May at 5:00pm (UK).

Summary

Breslau (Wrocław) was once home to Germany’s third-largest Jewish community. Never was the symbiosis of Jewish and German culture more acute. A borderland city, it was a hub of German nationalism. This two-part presentation examines the story of the Jews who called it home, including some extraordinary world-changing individuals like Fritz Haber, Paul Erlich, Fritz Stern, and the controversial Edith Stein.

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.