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," recently available in an updated paperback and ebook edition. He is currently working on a memoir, as well as an oral history of an American woman who was trapped in Iraq during the First Gulf War and found herself at the mercy of the Iraqis even as she hoped to survive the air raids of her own country. 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 journals such as the Oral History Review, as well as the Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, and other mainstream newspapers and periodicals. Online, besides being a blogger for the Huffington Post, he is a contributor to Common Dreams and Alternet.