Speakers Bureau

The following speakers are available to speak to students, and church and community groups. Please contact them directly, well in advance, since each speaker has only limited time available for speaking engagements. We caution teachers to prepare their students for the presentations and to provide an opportunity for the students afterwards. Please call Dr. Robert Bernheim, Executive Director, 207-621-3530 for the speaker's telephone number.

Margie Berkovich

Topics: Civil Rights Law and Hate Crimes
Age Level: All ages
Fee: None

Harry Blumenthal, Liberator

Topics: View of the Holocaust from a Liberator of Buchenwald
Age Level: High School - Adult
Fee: Donation to HHRC

Diane Gilman, Dir. National Coalition Building Institute of Maine

Topics: Prejudice Reduction and coalition building between Jews and other groups with expertise on whites facing racism.
Age Level: All ages
Fee: Negotiable plus donation to HHRC

Professor Christine Holden

Topics: Teaching about the Holocaust; Jews and Russia; Eastern Europe, Germany today; Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women
Age Level: All ages
Fee: Donation to HHRC and travel expenses

Professor Robert Katz

Topics: Reflections on journeys into "Galacia," Poland. Slide presentation and discussion.
Age Level: High School - Adult
Fee: $100 honorarium and donation to HHRC

Charles Rotmil, Hidden Child Survivor

Topic:Coming Out of Silence: the Hidden Child experience-a personal account of hiding during the Second World War in Belgium and France. The war seen through the eyes of a child-sometimes tearful, sometimes joyful.
Age Level: All ages
Fee: $200 honorarium and donation to HHRC

Julia Skalina, Holocaust Survivor

Topics: Personal experience during the Holocaust and life after the war in Communist Czechoslovakia
Age Level: All ages
Fee: Negotiable plus donation to HHRC and travel expenses

Max Slabotsky, Holocaust survivor

Topics: Life before, during and after the Holocaust
Age Level: All ages
Fee: $125 honorarium and donation to HHRC

David O. Solmitz

Topic: The coming of the Holocaust; my father's experience in Dachau (1938): foreshadowing what was to come; Analogies to USA today
Age Level: High School - Adult
Fee: Negotiable and donation to HHRC

Professor Howard M. Solomon

Topics: Homophobia in History; Gay and Lesbian History; History of Stereotyping and Stigma
Age Level: All ages
Fee: Donation to HHRC and travel expenses

Daphne L. Stern, daughter of Holocaust Escapee

Topics: Holocaust overview and why we study it; Diversity and Human Rights; Celebrating Our Differences!; Anti-semitism, Racism, Homophobia
Age Level: Jr. & Sr. High School, Adult groups
Fee: Donation to HHRC and travel expenses

Second Generation of Maine

Topics: Experiences of children of Holocaust Survivors
Age Level: All ages
Fee: Negotiable plus donation to HHRC

Alex Wilde, Holocaust Survivor

Topics: Rescue on a Kindertransport and life after the war
Age Level: All ages
Fee: Donation to HHRC and travel expenses