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.