Who is Max Amichai Heppner?

I am a healthy nonagenarian who celebrated his 92nd birthday in 2025. I am seen as an inspiring father or grandfather figure, full of common sense and appreciation of life. I care a lot. I like people, peace, and practical solutions.

My life is significantly circumscribed by the Holocaust and influenced by my rescue by the Janssen family of Deurne, a town in the south of The Netherlands (Holland). The rescue established a bond that continues to the the present (fourth) generation.

Currently, I work on how people my age can contribute to the community and how experience and practical knowledge can be passed on to the next generation. I have been presenting my ideas in books, plays, movies, videos lectures, and articles, ever since I retired in 1994.

My presentations cover a considerable range:
• Autobiography with a focus on how my family escaped from the Holocaust
• Promoting peace with emphasis on Interfaith communication and understanding

• Meeting and overcoming the challenges I’ve faced in life
• Expanding life using Jewish meditation the Kaballah and religious holidays
• Exploring dreams as a way to track personal growth, and
• Unlocking the meaning of life (any life) by mining life stories

My working life started as an editor of Farm Quarterly Magazine, a now extinct venture of the F&W Publishing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio; and it ended in a 30-year career as a public information officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

- Max Amichai Heppner

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