Leo Bretholz has appeared in the documentary film Survivors Among Us. He is also the co-author of Leap Into Darkness, which describes how Mr. Bretholz fled to the United States when Nazism began to dominate his native Austria. The book is to be made into a movie in cooperation with Senator Entertainment. Mr. Bretholz currently lives in Pikesville with his wife, and speaks regularly on his experiences in the Holocaust.
Dick Polman is the Maury Povich "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania and writes a Sunday political column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as a daily political blog, Dick Polman's American Debate. He has been cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters. He has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and the BBC, and lectures frequently in the community about journalism and presidential politics. He was on the presidential campaign trail in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and is currently teaching a Penn course on commentary writing during the historic 2008 primaries.