Speaking Engagements

Hedy Epstein is available for speaking engagements. She can speak on four topics:

Her Nazi Holocaust experience
Her five trips to the Israeli Occupied West Bank since 2003
How she came to terms with her parents' death (of particular interest to students of Death and Dying)
Her work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg trial of the physicians accused of performing medical experiments on concentration camp inmates

Hedy's honorarium fee is available upon request.

If you are interested in having Hedy speak to your group or organization, please contact Hedy.

Hedy has made over 2000 presentations to a variety of groups since 1970. Here's what some people have said about her:

"My colleagues and I were so impressed with your message of forgiveness ... and intolerance to present injustice. You made me reexamine our attitudes and values."
~ Nancy Harris, Teacher, Ferguson Middle School
"Thank you for your participation as a guest speaker for my course, Medicine Gone Awry. You add very much to the impact of teaching this topic."
~ Stephen S. Lefrak, M.D., Director, Program for the Humanities in Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
"Listening to Hedy Epstein speak reminded me of how resilient the human spirit can be ... she not only had a powerful story to tell, but she was a powerful speaker."
~ Mindy Mechanic, Crime Victim Recovery Project, Psychology Department, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Hedy Epstein's presentation to my undergraduate honors class in Biological Determinism made the Holocaust, the Nazi experiments and the Nuremberg trial more real to my students than any assigned reading could have ... For me and my students this was a most memorable, enlightening experience."
~ Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, Professor of Biology, University of MO-St. Louis