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The Pessimist's Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope
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A personal Holocaust memoir, historically rich and deeply contextual, that traces intertwined family stories through Nazi and Soviet terror—and postwar challenges of survival and rebuilding.
The Pessimist’s Son centers on Alexander Kimel, whose life unfolds from a shtetl in the Polish Ukraine, to a Nazi ghetto, to liberation. Interwoven is the harrowing story of his wife, Eva, whose father was murdered in the “Holocaust by Bullets,” the mass shootings that claimed more than a million Jewish ...