Joseph Polak was Hil­lel Direc­tor at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty from 1970 through 2012. A child sur­vivor of Bergen-Belsen, Rab­bi Polak is rec­og­nized as a lead­ing thinker and teacher in the Amer­i­can Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. He has writ­ten for Com­men­tary and many oth­er mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers. After The Holo­caus, The Bells Still Ring is the first vol­ume of a series of mem­oirs of child sur­vivors like himself.