The Pessimist's Son
Cherry Orchard Books (Verlag)
979-8-88719-801-9 (ISBN)
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 Wrocław 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.
ForewordAcknowledgments
Co-Author’s Note on the Use of Yizkor Books and Rohatyn Memoirs
Zachor—Remember, a Holocaust Prayer, by Alexander Kimel
Maps
Part 1: Alex’s Memoir, Edited and Annotated
Chapter 1—The Shtetl
Chapter 2—Shtetl Life and the Mystery of the Survival of the Jewish People
Chapter 3—My World Collapses
Chapter 4—The Russians: Podhajce Becomes a “Workers’ Paradise”
Chapter 5—Refugees in Rohatyn
Chapter 6—The Germans, the Ukrainians, and the Pogrom (Summer 1941)
Chapter 7—The Judenrat ( Jewish Council)
Chapter 8—First, the Ghetto; Then, Awful News
Chapter 9—The Labor Camp: Skipping Out on Skalat
Chapter 10—The First Action (March 1942)
Chapter 11—Building a Bunker, Breaking the Ice (Literally), and My Burning Shame
Chapter 12—The Yom Kippur Action (September 1942)
Chapter 13—Caught Again: The December Action (1942)
Chapter 14—The Baby and the Bunker
Chapter 15—My Mother Dies
Chapter 16—Luba Goes to Podhajce
Chapter 17—An Unpleasant Surprise
Chapter 18—The Resistance Group/“The Hope”
Chapter 19—Escape and Liquidation (May–June 1943)
Chapter 20—In Hiding
Chapter 21—The Final Ordeal, Then . . . Liberation!
Chapter 22—Our Return to Civilization
Photographs
Part 2: Eva’s Story of Life, Death, and Survival, by Martin Kimel
Chapter 23—Fleeing Radom (September 1939)
Chapter 24—Ludwipol (Summer 1941)
Chapter 25—The Nazis Murder Eva’s Father
Chapter 26—Into the Woods
Chapter 27—Liberation . . . Then Bitter Tears
Chapter 28—Some Reunions in Łódż: “Everyone’s Been Killed”
Chapter 29—The Destruction of Jewish Radom
Chapter 30—“Radom-in-Exile” and Motek’s Murder
Chapter 31—Antisemitism: From Łódż to Legnica
Part 3: Alexander and Eva Kimel
Chapter 32—1956: Quitting Poland for Israel: A Knife in Eva’s Heart
Chapter 33—Starting over yet Again in a New Country: Israel to America
Chapter 34—1967: Poland Denies Eva’s Request to Attend Her Stepfather’s Funeral
Chapter 35—The “Refugees” Achieve the American Dream—Awe and Gratitude from the Next Generation
We Will Never Forget—Auschwitz, by Alexander Kimel
Holocaust Lamentations, by Alexander Kimel
Relatives Known to Have Perished in the Holocaust
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 209 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-88719-801-9 / 9798887198019 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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