Meta and John Spiegler Holocaust Remembrance Lecture

Announcing the 2024 Speaker:

Maud Dahme

A Survivor's Journey

Maud Dahme

When Maud Dahme was just six years old, her parents made the painful decision to leave her and her sister with strangers in a desperate effort to keep them safe from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Through the course of the war, Maud and her sister would assume different identities to stay hidden.

The Meta and John Spiegler Holocaust Remembrance Lecture Series

Angie Suss Paull, May 3, 2007

Survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Steve Heller, April 7, 2008

Concentration Camp Liberator

Helena Weinrauch, April 20, 2009

Survivor of Plaszow, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belson

Eva Abrams, April 12, 2010

Survivor of Auschwitz

Bernie Farber, May 24, 2011

Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress

Henry Silberstern, April 24, 2012

Survivor of Terezin, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen

Warren Heilbronner, April 23, 2013

Survivor of Kristallnacht, Resident of Perry, NY

Samuel Rind, April 28, 2014

Survivor of Smerinka Ghetto, Emigrated to Bolivia and US

Marion Blumenthal Lazan, April 22, 2015

Survivor of Bergen-Belsen and Other Concentration and Refugee Camps

Roald Hoffman, April 5, 2016

As a child, survived the war hidden in an attic

Helen Levinson, April 25, 2017

Escaped Majdanek, survived by traveling and working under a false identity

Lea Malek, April 17, 2018

Survived a work camp, witnessed the Hungarian Revolution, emigrated to Israel and the United States

Maya Brown, April 30, 2019

As a child, fled Nazis in Russia, escaped pogrom in Poland, and lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany

Manny Lindenbaum, April 20, 2021

Deported with his family to Poland at just six years old; survived by escape to England via the Kindertransport

Estelle Laughlin, April 26, 2022

Avoided initial deportation from Warsaw ghetto in a hidden bunker, captured during the Warsaw Uprising; survived Lublin-Majdanek and Czestochowa

Felice Zimmern Stokes, April 25, 2023

A hidden child in France during the Holocaust