Navigating Life Review Interviews with Survivors of Trauma.: An article from: The Oral History Review

by Mark Klempner

23 pages, ebook

Published June 22, 2000

About the author

Mark Klempner is a historian, memoirist, and social commentator. The son of an immigrant who barely escaped the Holocaust, Klempner spent nearly a decade talking with and getting to know the Dutch rescuers in order to write The Heart Has Reasons: Dutch Rescuers of Jewish Children during the Holocaust. Klempner grew up in New York, and attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1997, and winning a J. William Fulbright Fellowship. In 2000, he received an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Klempner’s articles have appeared internationally in professional publications such as the Oral History Review, as well as in the Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, and other mainstream newspapers and periodicals. He has also been featured as a commentator on NPR and other broadcast media. Online, Klempner has blogged for the Huffington Post and contributed to Alternet.org and CommonDreams.org.