Lecture
Trudy Gold
Wednesday 17.12.2025
Trudy Gold
Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Jews
Wednesday 17.12.2025
How to watch
This lecture starts on 17 December at 5:00pm (UK).
Summary
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria. A highly neurotic man, he was determined to make Germany into a world power, through war if necessary. Not only was his ambition one of the major causes of World War I, he was an obsessed Jew hater.
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.