"Holocaust" Speaking Engagements by Rick Landman

TARGET AUDIENCES: Holocaust Museums & Study Centers Synagogues & Other Religious Groups Yom HaShoah & Kristallnacht programs College Holocaust Studies Programs German History Classes LGBT Studies Programs German-American Groups
PAST HOLOCAUST RELATED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT VENUES United Nations Briefing NYU-Deutches Haus NYU-Bronfman Center NYU-Office of LGBT Student Affairs Baruch College SUNY at Buffalo University of Minnesota at Duluth Spring Valley Holocaust Museum Museum of Jewish Heritage NYC Public Libraries Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (NYC) Congregation Beth Shalom (Munich)	BIO OF SPEAKER Richard Landman is an Attorney Emeritus, AICP Planner, and Professor. He has 3 Masters Degrees and a J.D. and over 30 years of experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. On a personal basis, he is a gay Native New Yorker, born to two German Holocaust Survivors. In 2005 he returned a Torah scroll that his grandfather brought to America, and he became a dual American/German citizen in 2007. His other grandfather and father were arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau. His father later returned as a U.S. Army soldier and liberated Dachau as part of the Third Infantry. Bet Torah program at Mount Kisco, 2012 Rick Landman spoke at the United Nations Briefing on Holocaust and LGBT Rights on January 29, 2015.	TERMS Sample topics can be found below. For Further Information Email: INFOTRUE@yahoo.com

You can now hear from this Native New Yorker to learn about German/Jewish/Holocaust history from a very unique perspective. A Special Program can be developed for your needs. THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE BLOG PIECES ON THIS SUBJECT. You can go to the Navigation Bar to find other BLOG pieces. Kristallnacht BLOG 24 Hour story of Henry Landman's Arrest on November 10, 1938 - November 9, 2014 Here is one example of a blog piece on my father's arrest on Kristallnacht. You can go to the Navigation Bar to check out many blog pieces to get an idea for the focus of your program. It was November 9, 1938 and my 18 year old father and his family went to sleep in their apartment in Augsburg as usual after hearing on the radio that a 17 year old Jewish boy shot a German official in Paris. Two Gestapo agents in green Bavarian garb rang the doorbell at his family's apartment at 5 a.m. in the morning. His aunt (who was to die a few years later in the camps) answered the door. All they said was, "Does Heinz Landmann live here?"[…]Continue Reading Click below to watch a 5 minute video by Rick Landman as he channels a Conversation with his father about why his father didn't leave Germany when Nazism was on the rise. It was created for the Kristallnacht Shabbat program at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah - CBST on November 13, 2020. For Rick Landman's 7 minute presentation taped on February 26, 2015 @ Museum of Jewish Heritage click below. In November 2016, Rick Landman spoke at the annual Kristallnacht Service at CBST for 5 minutes about the Jewish Refugee Internment Camp at Oswego New York, which was created towards the end of World War II for about 900 displaced European Jews, who were interned under the threat of being returned back to Germany after the war's conclusion.
HOLOCAUST
	Reconciliation: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust Why an American son of Holocaust Survivors became a German citizen? How NYC's Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay got the 5 stone Memorial Markers for the Other Victims f the Nazi era. The History of Jews in Germany before and after the Nazi era German influence on American Jewish Movements Returning a Holocaust Torah to Germany How my family survived the Holocaust First Hand story about Kristallnacht The first American Soldier to enter Augsburg/Munich was also an inmate in Dachau seven years earlier Returning a Holocaust Torah to Germany The History of Jewish Movements in Germany, before and after the Nazi era What happened to the Homosexual Community during the Nazi era and the history of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's contribution to the LGBT Rights Movement.
GERMAN HISTORY
	Reconciliation: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust Why an American son of Holocaust Survivors became a German citizen? The History of Jewish Movements in Germany, before and after the Nazi era How my family survived the Holocaust? The first American Soldier to enter Augsburg/Munich was also an inmate in Dachau seven years earlier Returning a Holocaust Torah to Germany First Hand story about Kristallnacht The Rise and Fall of the LGBT Rights Movement in Germany 1897-1945 What happened to the Homosexual Community during the Nazi era and the history of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's contribution to the LGBT Rights Movement.
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