As a former college professor, Helen very much enjoys speaking to students and readers. She has met with English and History classes in public and independent schools; with college students in Women's Studies, Slavic Studies, Jewish Studies, Journalism and Memoir classes; with social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists at various mental health conferences; with women's groups and public library reading groups; with religious groups at synagogues and churches. She has recently traveled to speak in Mexico City, Toronto, Budapest, and Prague.

Lectures The Legacy of Joseph Papp Reading and Writing Women's Memoir Transforming Trauma Writing Your Family History Swimming against stereotype: The Story of a Czech Water Polo Player/Officer/Jew Assimilating Jews: The case of Bohemia

Some of Helen's Events in 2005 - 2006

September 26	"The Legacy of Joseph Papp" The Public Theater, New York City
December 4	"Traumatisme en heritage" Musee d'art et d'histoire de Judaisme Paris, France
February 12	Author Reading and Discussion. Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for her Mother’s History. National Czech and Slovak Museum, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
March 7	"The Legacy of Joe Papp" Theater Department, Suffolk University, Boston
March 16	"Swimming Against Stereotype" San Francisco Jewish Community Library, California
April 27	“Why Do We Read Memoir?” Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Gloucester, MA
April 28	"Searching for our Fathers" Cambridge Health Alliance Women's Conference, Boston
August 8	"Building a Public Theater: The Legacy of Joe Papp" Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts
August 26-27	International Conference of Child Survivors and Children of Survivors Detroit, Michigan Keynote Address and Workshop: “Writing Family Histories after the Holocaust”