Tanya Gold and Trudy Gold
In Conversation on Holocaust Memorialisation
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Summary
Journalist Tanya Gold talks about Holocaust tourism as she experienced it in Poland in 2024, where she was sent by Harper’s Magazine. This presentation will cover much of what she wrote about in her subsequent article. Link to Harper’s Magazine article
Note: the title “My Auschwitz Vacation” is ironic, a comment on the failures of memorialisation.
Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist. She writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, and others. She won feature writer of the year at the 2009 British Press Awards and arts and culture story of the year at the 2015 Foreign Press Association Awards.
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.