Lecture
Trudy Gold
Tuesday 21.04.2026
Trudy Gold
The Betrayal of the Jews
Tuesday 21.04.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 21 April at 5:00pm (UK).
Summary
June 22, 1941 marked the beginning of Hitler’s invasion of Russia. Following the German army into battle, the Einsatzgruppen were dedicated to wiping the Jews off the face of the Earth. From then until the end of the war, the Nazis murdered a third of the world’s Jews, mutating from death by bullets to the creation of death camps as a more efficient way of achieving the Nazi war aim. This was a vast operation that soon culminated in the Allied declaration of December 17, 1942. Yet there was very little attempt at rescue. As late as the spring of 1944, after the invasion of Hungary, 436,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in a three-month period. The Jews of Palestine understood the nature of Jewish powerlessness and vowed never again. These ideas still mark the Jewish state. Did the world really stand by?
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.