Tec, Nechama
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Name (Hebrew)
טק, נחמה
Name (Latin)
Tec, Nechama
Other forms of name
Tec, Nechama, 1931-
Ṭeḳ, Neḥamah
Bawnik, Nechama
Tec, Nechama Bawnik
Date of birth
1931-05-15
Date of death
2023-08-03
Other designation
Holocaust survivors
Place of birth
Lublin (Poland)
Place of death
New York (N.Y.)
Place of residence/headquarters
Connecticut
New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Research
Associate group
University of Connecticut
Columbia University
Occupation
Sociology teachers
holocaust scholars
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- LCN; note: 1931-; Nechama Bawnik Tec
- Her Gambling in Sweden, 1964
- Her Dry tears, c1982:CIP t.p. (Nechama Tec) data sheet (b. 1931) galley (b. in Poland, now lives in Conn. & teaches at the Univ. of Conn.)
- Her Dry tears, 1984:t.p. (Nechama Tec) p. 4 of cover (Nechama Bawnik Tec)
- Be-gov ha-arayot, 2000:t.p. (Neḥamah Ṭeḳ) t.p. verso (Nechama Tec [in rom.])
- Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Dec. 8, 2005(Nechama Tec; b. May 15, 1931, Lublin, Poland; came to U.S., 1952; Columbia University, Ph. D., 1963; University of Connecticut, Stamford, professor of sociology, 1987- )
- Nechama Tec (née Bawnik) (born 15 May 1931) is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell, and is a Holocaust scholar. he was born in Lublin, Poland to a family of Polish Jews in 1931 and was 8 years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. She survived the Holocaust thanks to her life being saved by Polish Catholics. After the war she immigrated to Israel and later moved to the United States, where she earned a doctorate at Columbia University. ( (Wikipedia, 13 November 2015) )
- Washington post WWW site, viewed August 18, 2023(in obituary dated August 16, 2023: Nechama Tec; wrote a memoir, "Dry Tears" (1982), recounting her experience as a young Jewish girl in German-occupied Poland. Dr. Tec, who died Aug. 3 at 92, spent the rest of her academic career exploring issues of resilience, courage and compassion, emerging as a leading scholar of the Holocaust. Dr. Tec was born Nechama Bawnik in Lublin, Poland, on May 15, 1931. Dr. Tec's death, at home in Manhattan, was confirmed by her son)
- The Author's משפחת אנשי היער, תשנ"ז.