Mark Klempner

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." An updated paperback edition of this acclaimed oral history is now available worldwide. 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 studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Klempner's professional articles have appeared internationally in publications such as the "Oral History Reader." His articles for the general public have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, and other periodicals. Online, he is a blogger for the Huffington Post, and has contributed to Commondreams.org and Alternet. An active public speaker, Klempner addressed members of Congress and their Staffs on Holocaust Remembrance Day in April 2012. He has also given presentations at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, the National Humanities Center, and at hundreds of churches, synagogues, cultural centers, and educational institutions.