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.