The Pessimist's Son - A Holocaust Memoir of Hope

About the author

Alexander Kimel was born in Podhajce, Poland (now Pidhaitsi, Ukraine) in 1926. After the war, he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering at the Wroclaw Polytechnic University in Poland. In the U.S., he started and ran his own consulting engineering firm. Poems from his award-winning website on the Holocaust have been used in schools, universities and exhibits, widely reprinted, and recited on YouTube. He also contributed a chapter to the anthology, Life in the Ghettos during the Holocaust. He died in 2018.

Martin Kimel, the son of Alexander and Eva Kimel, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School. He is a securities lawyer in Washington, D.C. and lives in Maryland. He has written on the Holocaust and other topics for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Wall Street Journal, Times of Israel, Forward, Chicago Tribune and many other publications.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Kimel, Martin Kimel
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9798887198002
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-800-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)