News & Events
Upcoming and Featured Talks
- Tuesday, March 5, 2024, keynote speaker at Days of Remembrance, John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. “Surviving the Holocaust to Pursue the American Dream”
- Monday, February 19, 2024, 2:00 pm, online discussion of Cowboy from Prague, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (see NCSML website for link)
- Wednesday, December 6, 4:00 pm, book-signing at Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD
- Saturday, December 2, 2023, 10:30 am, grand opening, Wyrd Bookstore, Edgewater, MD
- Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 6:30 pm, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Orlando, FL, presentation: “Surviving the Holocaust to Pursue the American Dream”
- Thursday, May 4, 2023, 7:00 pm, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, Cedar Rapids, IA, presentation: “Surviving the Holocaust to Pursue the American Dream”
- Monday, April 17, 2023, 11:00 am, Joint Base Andrews, Camp Springs, MD, presentation: “Surviving the Holocaust to Pursue the American Dream”
- Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 2:30 pm, Ginger Cove, Annapolis, MD. presentation: “Surviving the Holocaust to Pursue the American Dream” (Ginger Cove residents only)
- Thursday, February 9, 2023, 7:30 pm, Defiant Requiem Foundation presentation via Zoom: Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Thursday, November 17, 2022, 9:00 am, keynote speaker at Lessons of the Shoah Conference, John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD
- Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 6:30 pm: Annapolis Yacht Club/CEO Club, Annapolis, MD. Book launch party for Cowboy from Prague: An Immigrant’s Pursuit of the American Dream
- Friday, June 17, 2022, 3:30 pm: Catalina Rotary Club of Tucson (via Zoom). Virtual presentation of Immigrant Trilogy
- Tuesday, May 10, 2022: National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD. Virtual presentation of Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Wednesday, September 8, 2021, 7:00 pm (via Zoom): “Travel Tales”, Heritage Harbour Lodge, Annapolis, MD. Speaking about Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Monday, August 9, 2021: Summer Teachers Institute 2021, “American Discrimination During the Holocaust Era,” Registration: https://tinyurl.com/STI21
- Thursday, April 15, 2021: Fort Detrick, Ft. Detrick, MD. Microsoft Teams presentation of Prague: My Long Journey Home, as part of Holocaust awareness week
- Wednesday, March 10, 2021: John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. Zoom presentation of Prague book as part of school’s annual Holocaust Remembrance program.
- Wednesday, May 13, 2020: “Travel Tales” of Heritage Harbour, Heritage Harbour Lodge, Annapolis, MD. Speaking about Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Wednesday, March 11, 2020: 10:45 am–John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. Discussing Prague book as part of school’s annual Holocaust Remembrance program.
- Tuesday, February 25, 2020: 9:35 am/11:00am–Old Mill Middle School North, Millersville, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Monday, February 24, 2020: 2:20 pm/3:15 pm–Old Mill Middle School North, Millersville, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Monday, December 2, 2019: St. Mary of the Mills, Laurel, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Sunday, November 17, 2019, 1:00 pm (EST): Interview on talk show, KVOI, AM-1300, Tucson, Arizona
- Sunday, July 28, 2019: 1:00 pm–Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd St., Baltimore, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Wednesday, May 1, 2019: 7:00 pm—Towson University, Towson, Maryland. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Monday, March 11, 2019: 11:00 am–John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. Discussing Prague book as part of school’s annual Holocaust Remembrance program.
- Wednesday/Thursday, February 20/21, 2019: 9:35 am/3:20 pm–Old Mill Middle School North, Millersville, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Friday, February 15, 2019: 1:25 pm/2:20 pm–Annapolis Middle School, Annapolis, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Wednesday, December 18, 2018: 11:00 am–Magothy River Middle School, Arnold, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Thursday, November 29, 2018: 12 noon–Rotary Club of Annapolis, Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home and Ready, Fire, Aim!
- Thursday, November 8, 2018: 6:30 pm–Book Club, Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD. Discussing and signing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Friday, August 10, 2018: pm–Preston Community Arts Center, Kingwood, West Virginia. Discussing and signing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Thursday, July 19, 2018: 6:30-8:30 pm–Bearing Witness Institute, Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC. Discussing and signing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Tuesday, May 8, 2018: 1:30 pm–Book Club, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Building A, Conference Room 5, Washington, DC. Discussing and signing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Wednesday, April 11, 2018: 7:00 pm–Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home with faculty and students
- Thursday, March 15, 2018: 2:35 pm–Old Mill Middle School North, Millersville, MD. Discussing Prague: My Long Journey Home
- Wednesday, March 7, 2018: 11:30 am–Entrepreneurs’ Exchange luncheon, Brio Restaurant, Annapolis, MD. Discussing and signing Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror
- Monday, March 5, 2018: 10:00 am–John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. Discussing Prague book as part of school’s annual Holocaust Remembrance program.
News
The Catholic University of America Magazine Spotlight: Charles Ota Heller, One of WWII’s “Hidden Children”
When Hitler’s troops marched into Czechoslovakia in 1938, Charles Ota Heller (Ph.D. 1968) was 3 years old. For this child of a Roman Catholic mother and a Jewish father, the next years would bring torment as the Nazis put a chokehold on the country. Fifteen members of his family disappeared almost overnight. His father, a well-to-do clothing manufacturer in Prague, escaped and joined the British Army. To save Charles’s life, Heller’s mother hid him on a farm just before she was taken to a slave labor camp. Read More
Capital Gazette: Man Writes of Life in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia
When he was 9 years old, Charles Ota Heller found a loaded gun in a roadside ditch and shot a Nazi in the chest. He hoped the man died, though he didn’t stick around long enough to find out. All he heard was a woman’s screams as his victim lay on the ground in the waning days of World War II. Read More
Morris County Record: Former Morristown resident writes about surviving war in Europe
Charles Heller was 9 years old when he shot a Nazi in Czechoslovakia. The son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, Heller was in hiding at a family friend’s farm on the outskirts of Prague. Read More
Outlook by the Bay Magazine: Prague, My Long Journey Home
Local author Charles Ota Heller begins his compelling memoir with scenes of his early childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Read More
Capital Gazette, Bookworm: Heritage Harbor Resident does some name dropping
The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, MD, May 21, 2017, p. D2: article about the launch of Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror.