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  • The Pessimist's Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope

    The Pessimist's Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope - Paperback

    The Pessimist's Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope - Paperback

    By Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel

About Alexander Kimel Books

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.